[lit-ideas] Re: some other Sunday poem
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 17:34:39 -0800
Reminds me a bit of Whitman -- you could call it Song of the Disappointed
Bus except Whitman wasn't disappointed in anything.
What does "Throwaway 2001" mean?
Lawrence
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Sunset on a Bus
1
At Hellertown stop
the first in hours,
Park View Terrace
issues two commands.
2
At a gas station angling back,
Regular Plus Super
explains what America wants
-participation-
like other down-to-earth stops,
where to refuse to play or revise rules
is to be killed or sent to terrible rooms.
3
Dark weather of our times, you think,
but the sky sheds itself in orange fire,
Under blazing tangerine clouds,
cars flock fast in spot-lit packs,
trickle into granite scars and ridges,
in a boundless blue bowl of orange.
4
Enormous controlled disappointment
flags these tamed valleys and hills
with chambered brawls of people,
hungry weeds, and brawny corn.
What clouds my eyes had hurt me --
possums in piles by the road's edge,
cement mart at a crossroads drooping
against green corridors of farm work,
yellow and burnt shale night beyond,
microwave pods, blocks of dark soy,
vines aching shadows on transformers,
hawks winding down the innocent soil,
winding down as a witness, except for
one cab harvester combining a wet row,
its sunsplashed chassis turning enough
to give me the gold and fire in its windows.
[throwaway 2001]
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