SOME OF DEE LIVESAY'S GIFTS

she knew how to get me

to give her a pedicure

and how to lose any object

she needed (her purse, an address, keys)

in order to proceed

to the next step

so we could both go round the bend

searching

for what ever

for ever

 

DEBACLE -- THE BREAKING UP OF ICE IN A RIVER OR, THE BOMBING OF THE BALKANS

in the catchment area

for the naked and the hungry

curators and coroners rub cosmologies

 

outside the gated art galleries

men weave by whispering

"hi honey, want some crack?"

and the reverse

 

simple maxim of the market place

sell anything at any price

the mean of production

 

400 hundred billion years of chaos -- what to do?

if consciousness is an illusion

transformation is everything