In Any Case Poem by Robert Rorabeck

The waves glisten or
I don’t know what they’ve been doing like
Hooded snakes underneath
The lampshades:
And through the malls of your yesterday
I suppose we’ve been holding hands
Or kissing mouths,
But becoming misshapen anyways
Through all of the science fictions of our Halloweens:
We’ve
Been headed all out and this is Christmas-
What is there left to sell
Whilst another couple has become married:
Theirs is a preternatural vow
For the vampires and the werewolves:
While we are almost done,
And this is another honeymoon for the dead:
They stand beside the heavenly lights of another fruit
Stand-
Hardly containing themselves, as at first the lions yawn,
And then grow hungry,
As the little girls at first pretend to dance before
The heavens and then go indoors:
They will not be metamorphosing anyways, today-
They’ve been doing good to themselves
But only between their classes:
And I suppose you know that the hummingbirds
Don’t know any words in any case even though they’ve
Been drinking from out of our
Fountains- just as if they were our wishing wells,
As another shuttle tries to breach our
Impossible hemispheres anyways-
In any case.