hindu shite

doggone man where have you been

                     ‘tis strange

how we go ‘round time and space

who can tell the numbers that equate

                                                        say

the stage in the colosseum with a quine

guitar wail or one in verona  darnest

with a ionescu play

oh don’t go loving me now

your destiny is done if you had one

yeah you’re lookin quite the same

but the four legged walk _’tis new

and the shaking off of the rain

why have you come back (wasn’t the

barger paid were you turned out at the

gate) once we met in the water wade

then again when you made me captain

next when we crave for the horizon

and so on _we went on becoming but

you are no more and you are again

this goin’ round i can’t understand

exiled on mean streets in the milky

way and fit with a lifetime everyday

like a mongrel chasing his tragedy

you may beat destiny with a movement

of your tail

now (no one cares)

the specks of light on a heaven’s night

will be there yet at summer’s end

i said enough (don’t love me now)

  you entered with my breath

     and i’m following winds

        shadows of an apparition

and white recurrent light

floods my roomful of gifts

  among them

     keeps a tinderbox

        subscriptions from hell

(-dog’s barking outside dad

-yeah i get him out of the rain