Poetics Poem by Michael Farrell

what on earth
what not on earth
swimming in the caches
cat: 00,
crocodile: 00 [clock: 24
what separates is the interest in … fish are the least interested in …
of the animals interested in,
These few comments, unreflected on
Borrowed from reading, as one might
The shoes are in the shoe closet
It's gentler than … Sound, in my case …
… Still, in the words of the telegram:
we turn, as a tender button
so dependent, so produced
There are changes … in … body
The sounds of … works
spain? italy? poland?
on … streets …
did they … try
Speak plainly, and wear …
That came from (integrity, the labour movement, southern exile)
That men, washing in cold water, listening
[Lying back in the garden, the sociology of it, the mother and
the father, having studied arts / law are sociologists, you
don't work like … Destruction and formation in French politics
I want to make a space (transposed)
Structures outside …
Unfrightened by the dog jumping up and down
Thix ix not xomething dexigned to be xaid
(fragility)
Years as numbers
Today
Am …
Before, and seeing, and …
Writing of the stove, [order], where to go
Cutting lowering
A subject
That prevailed and surveyed, having taken in
You see … It's … you
That I read in the names
And it creates, having …
e. c. i. m. m2.
The letters are sufficient for now
We play the records, sit in the small cinema
hired theatre. This — none of this — is
the same. Old divisions, reportage
meaning goss — what is the goss on them?
That they are now being venerated unto death
But you are mine, sympathetically
But I will hold you at a distance
It goes on, went on, goes unseen