Did you ever notice
That certain buildings or landscapes
[Editor’s note: the poet is trying
[just this once
[To be literal]
Remind you of someone or something
The building in New York
Falling without a shadow
[Editor’s note: where London bridge
[Is falling down]
A stately apartment building
Towering over the curvy roadside
Reminds you of a brick of gold
You and your lover once hid in the flooring
She smoked cigarettes
And introduced you to
R.D. Laing
Author of
The Divided Self
On the piano
In smoky Ottawa
Or was it Toronto
Hard to tell from this distance
Of time
Flac drifting over the Channel
Wearing Pynchon goggles
It’s like that with me
Gravity’s Rainbow
A luxury hotel room in London, England
One last time
I used to hate it when ppl while admiring
A beautiful hat I wore
Would go on and on about their similar hat
They wore sometime or other
But sooner or later I realized
That the best thing you can do
To make God happy
Or Eve or Diotima
Jesus on the Mount
In life is remind someone
Of something beautiful in their life
And that is why it is sad
For me anyway
That animals remember
But they can’t say exactly why
Animal mind a vast sea of remembrance
Someday I will have to tell you about
The Duke of Enghien
His hound following the young Royal all the way
To his execution
In Paris by Buonoparte
And the crazed dog crying by his human partner’s grave
In the prison yard where D’Enghien was hurriedly buried
But that’s ok
In the latest Superman movie
Which I haven’t seen
Superman deals with a garbled message of memory
From his parents
Ratioed means to get more comments
Than likes
Well of likes I get few
And comments less
On Substack
From my parents
The message is garbled
Adding two comments to help counter my like and add to a ratio haha
Likes are an easy thing to do but comments require thinking.