Card catalogue
the altar for this ceremony
this sacrifice of texts
hectic experiment of style and violence
The Minister of Compulsion Dustin
Hoffman * Midnight Cowboy long black leather coat dirty canvas shoes no
socks orange cotton pants rolled
cuffs a second pair underneath eggshell
blue operating
room pants! white cotton shirt cavalier
sleeves black beard to his collar bone
threads of white. dishevelled Gregory Peck Ahab
of the wheel road searching
for that bound leviathan a
fat, defaceable book.
Midnight Cowboy, a jaundiced industrial production,
the word-assassin mutters to himself
unfolds a blanket black and orange plaid
unwraps a headrest a tube black rubber under the catalogue locates the headrest
orients it with his right foot seeking perfect position
places the blanket on the seat
pulls the chair from the wall
opens the blanket on the chair bending twice: hip/knee
sits
Dustin
Hoffman * Midnight Cowboy