--------------------as sideways a poem gets written:
the dictionary's on the floor again, both of them
are. my tongue is between 'you'
and a hard place, the tip of which
won't hold much longer. this vortex
is similar, is familiar. the lilies on the table
deafen me and I am drunk, not inebriated
but consumed. dans ma vie ordinaire
je parle anglais, l'anglais américain.
in my dream I am blinded by light.
foreshadowing, a dent. something
I discovered in the back of a book —
like your face or a sort of billowing,
a bastard olive, an insolvent crisis. nonetheless
affluence fades. deterrents
or detergents in the works.
