Part I

1.

I am reminded

of circumspection,

not that I wanted

any of that

take the money and

they said

give a get a

they said

your best bet

or some other

thoughtful response

to a thoughtless moment

2.

she wanted to talk to someone

3

a small child she was

when all those

large things

happened

4.

she was eating a sandwich

no a plum no a nice piece

of cake no a leaf

she was  chewing a leaf

of grass  someone said

she could make a sound

through a blade of  grass

(memory without location

desire without object)

the thumb out

of joint

it aches

that interruption no

interruption

5.

her pure wail

Part II

They didn't know it but

She was asking a question about ideas

It is important to live inside the body

Of an idea she thought

Personal obsession kind

Of a fetish

Object without desire

I have no topics

Live in the world live in

The cold world   Come upon it

As a form public and

pornographic

That is to say

The ultimate irony

Of the correct move

All the time begging

The question

That other issue

Bitter and true

Remember the chocolate and

The one class of cognac and

The shadows of trees and

The windows and all that

followed

This poem first appeared in Moria.