Curled in Sleep as the Procession Passes

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TWELVE THIRTY ONE NINETEEN NINETY NINE

Larry Levis

First Architect of the jungle & Author of pastel slums,

Patron Saint of rust,

You have become too famous to be read.

I let the book fall behind me until it becomes

A book again. Cloth, thread, & the infinite wood.

Don’t worry. Don’t worry.

In the future, everyone, simply everyone,

Will be hung in effigy.

The crepe paper in the high school gym will be

Black & pink & feathery,

Rainbow trout & a dog’s tongue. In effigy. This,

For example, was written in memory of ...

But of whom? Brecht gasping for air in the street?

Truman dancing alone with his daughter?

Goodbye, little century.

Goodbye, riderless black horse that trots

From one side of  the street to the other,

Trying to find its way

Out of  the parade.

Forgive me for saluting you

With a hand still cold, sweating,

And resembling, as I hold it up & a heavy sleep

Fills it, the body of someone

Curled in sleep as the procession passes.

Excuse me, but at the end of our complete belief,

Which is what you required of us, don’t we deserve

A good belly laugh? Don’t we deserve

A shout in the street?

And this confetti on which our history is being written,

Smaller & smaller, less clear every moment,

And subject to endless revision?

Under the circumstances, & because

It can imagine no other life, doesn’t the hand,

Held up there for hours,

Deserve it?

No? No hunh? No.