Very little was known about anything
in the old time. It was as a vocalise
is to a sonata, children in the limelight

There is a tremendous interest in dog-related items,
such as dog-paintings. once they figured out how to print on tin,
copper and silver with the horn on it,

Nobody lives
above me,

I predict, like the one who was sucked to sea 
and returned in an Arabian container ship, 
all small worlds will be dashed and drowned. 

Suddenly fatigued among French
women in the roman

(You had a plan for me. You wrote in your notebooks—you plotted, reasoned, schemed. to bring me into being. (But reason is a fragile wing).

squirrel killer 
predawn snacker 

They’ll seem to pose for you,
though they’re always posed

It could feel good to stare at numbers 
all day, another job but I can’t name any; 

Better homes and gardens for many
but for the rest, we are not so sure.
We need a place to turn around and be unctuous