Demo by Charlie Smith

Author:Charlie Smith
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2020-02-27T16:00:00+00:00

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A tense obligato, the light comes up out of a shallow grave.

It was only resting. Sulphur butterflies, taking a holiday

in the garden, one in shades of yellow and orange, the other

the same plus chestnut spots, drift above

white-faced mallows, giving a sense of softness, richness

to the situation, paralleling the stinks and murder

poking up everywhere, each an elaboration of presence, minus

idea and will, the soul, we think, something like this,

gliding through the somatological world, airy, when maybe it’s not,

maybe just an overweight bumbler, clumsy sporting-goods salesman

of the spirit, slumped by the road in a used Eldorado with

the window down, sweating in the dog-day heat, one we pass

irritably, exhumaceously by, as we hurry to the rendezvous.

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