A MAN WALKING AROUND HIS HOME Comments

Poetry has no timetable

Poetry is written not when one wishes to
but when She —poetry— desires it
— they say

I say this to myself as I walk
and kick a small stone
down the street
again and again

the same small stone

God can be anything
even a stone on the road
—they also say

And I say it to myself as someone
who has nothing unusual
to say about a stone
kicked down a solitary street

To kick the stone is the whole subject
on this afternoon
without subject
for there is nothing to do
and poetry has no timetable

The stone knocks another stone and doesn't sing
it does not fill the universe
It is nothing
one could say
on the way home
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