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Your indifference to it all,
Decades-long obliviousness
To everything around here:
Dust motes, the microwave --
What thought have you given
To them? Very little, or none.
Be not surprised therefore
When a picture stays blithely
In its frame as your teeth
Fall out and the stoical toilet
Gives not a shit on that fatal
Morning or blazing afternoon
That Achilles predicts for us
In Book XVI of Homer’s Iliad.
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Radio
I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark
from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman
Very true. Know before whom ye stand.
Posted by: Connie Fell | October 04, 2016 at 11:18 AM