Set Theory

All the narrative possibilities of
leaving home. A reader's attention,
brooding. Our dilemma. To devise 
unburdening.
 

Lackluster weather-chasing, protean & odd.
All one can reasonably do is resist.
 

monosyllabic.  music notation.


                       a tea ceremony
                       
 
(A dissolute life.) It 
wanders, efficient. 
         

Do not affect a breezy 
manner. This is only one example.


a predominance of mettle-testing in the persistent dream a
subject that's usually a limitation punctuated with dime-store
resonance
              should be displayed as such

logically afraid to fly, shuttered.


paintings, architecture. silent things.


mosaic ashbery byzantine   
                    
  
Throws down a literary gauntlet to young
fiction writers everywhere. 


Pollute, bastardize, but mostly pollute.



This poem first appeared in the 2000 edition of RealPoetik.