Useless Landscape, or a Guide for Boys by D. A. Powell

Author:D. A. Powell
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-55597-512-8
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2014-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS

& afterwards.

The carnal is one type of aesthetic display

a little hamlet can suffer through.

Along with all the body’s meta-meta-metaphors,

from transients to the Department of Public Health.

There are so many reasons I’m not there.

So many reasons to let that lazy sentence

stand as substitute for work I should want to do.

I should want to toil those imaginary fields.

For they are imaginary fields, many, by now.

That’s where a good deal of the tension lies.

All fields catch fire.

That’s not so dire.

I got to be the toast of C Street

for a while, the bee of The Beehive on B Street.

There was no A to speak of.

Besides.

It was a B kind of town, wasn’t it?

An exhibition to celebrate the humble prune.

Six stories high, the grand hotel.

That’s the gamut, dammit.

Minus the gore. I had to spare you the gore.

How else could I lead you this far,

except to pretend that nothing perishes, especially

matters that disturb the heart.

Ah, the heart …

What is the heart but a boob, anyways,

that it should hang out at the rodeo arena,

long after the bulls have been roped.

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