Glare by A. R. Ammons

Author:A. R. Ammons
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 039331779X
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013-11-17T16:00:00+00:00

you dragass around: you know you’re

on empty: the light has gone out on

your vowels, blue-lit with hallucination:

the slick has dried on your rhythms:

the pulp of your poetry has drained

juice-clear, prose having

decided what’s to become of everything:

it’s like, well, if, like, you pull

the wings off a gnat, you have a nit

or nittwit: but, of course, keeping

on is the only thing to keep: stop,

you sink through: imagine you can

knock up a knockout, or knock a

knockout up: redress and re-dress

the backdrop: though it’s neutral,

breezes fan, snakes strike: but it’s

neutral: project upon it filmed

rights: play or play with your

piano: I have the dominant gene that

curls my tongue: the

trouble is that it then looks

like a sow cunt: I look in the

mirror and think had I a boar’s

needledick I’d do it to myself in the

slitified tongue: this enables me

to project recessiveness and “get”

the echo of mixed emotions: (the

major macroeconomic is that more

people sweat a raise than raise a

sweat): easy reversals lead

to wisdom: the great practitioners

on Wall Street take a different

tack, a take tack, no, I mean: for

example, you run to the computer

every day and buy and sell and lose

your money, whereas someone takes

the long view, does nothing, and

gets rich: also lives long because

his belly is not entangled, just full:

takes all kinds: you be the kind

not already taken: be doing something

excusable, like for mankind or the

arts, and under that shield get rich,

be greedy, don’t look greedy: this

is really good advice, coming from a

skeptic. who taketh up poetry picketh

up an unemployment form:

poetry’s the wealth poverty

buys: some of the wealthy have bought

poetry but were poor in spirit or

their parents sucked and they learned

to: the great thing about brooks is

that water moves like jaguars and

gazelles but is dead: the dead unless

ruffled by worms don’t move and dead

impounded water except for a nibbling

fish or two doesn’t move: but water

which is like stone, dead, dances and

sprays, flashes and dives like life:

and what is so good is it is immortal,

immortally dead forever so it can

keep on forever going away and coming

back, a great action at no expense

to life, the sun an engine long-dwelt

in the heavens: but not a dweller:

just the spirit of motion animates

water: it glistens: we are ourselves

pools in a long brook: husked, we

glisten, too, glisten and glisten

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