ACCOUNT OF MY DAYS

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BE DIGITAL
and believe what falls between your fingers...


DAYLIGHT FARM SUPPLY
wet lawns along the river...


ASKING FOR HELP
the one I want...


BYE BYE
to be commanded to sit down...


HEAVEN AND HELL
Understand me: I was the boy...


MY FACE IN THE MIRROR
what have you done...


MESSAGE
there is a line...


ALERT
televangelists and...


ANNOUNCEMENT
the modern boat is sinking!...


NO MISTAKES
understand me: I am the musician...


FINDING
my eyes if I should lose them...


LOVE POEM
sh! the poet is sleeping...


AFTER
the crowd without its beggar...


AGAINST IMMORTALITY
I don't want to live forever...


ADJUST
At last the flow of water has changed:...


PROTESTANT MEMORY
to keep myself from crying...


DOWNPOUR
the cats come in...


RELIGIOUS SCENE
on the wall of the steakhouse...


ON MY CARPET
he calls it his...


APPEAL
your honors...


SONG OF CONFESSION
my heart a poisoned well...


DRIVING
the black femur...


INTERSECTION
the corner of lost memory...


FIRST COLD DAY
in the back yard...


THEFT OF A LINE FROM SIMIC
dark night...


EXAMINATION
reading the heart's...


ABSURD
to say...


NEVER COMPLETE
bowing like a long-necked bird...


AS HE SHIFTS THEM
In the back pew of...


untitled
this poetry...


END OF THE EIGHTIES
the story takes...


12/31/91
outside in...


IN A CAR
we're in California...


MORNING INCIDENT
Getting up to let the cat in I felt myself growing weak,...


untitled
you wiped out...


4/3/92
a dream...


FAILING TO RECOGNIZE
even as it occurred...


ROCK PAINTING
the dance I did...


REFUSING TO UNDERSTAND
what comes from the dog's mouth...


NIGHTWORK
the secret government...


ODE TO THE FRIENDS OF POETRY
the friends of poetry...


LOCATION
rights and privileges...


SENSE OF AN ENDING
the last breath I...

DREAMED OF MY EX-WIFE


We were selling a house back to the couple we had bought it from.
In my dream also we had not seen each other for years. We had
taken good care of the house but made few improvements during
our time in it. The other couple started to approach the subject
of money, cautious, not wanting to be taken advantage of.

I spoke for us (familiar). There were things I didn't want to
discuss, mostly about the oddity of our arrangement, how we were
not really together, but only trying to see how it worked out
now, after many years. I made the excuse to myself that she also
wished this to be our secret.

She still looked to be barely out of her teens, more beautiful
now that she was not troubled. She had been told she would not
need anti-psychotic drugs if she had daily psychiatric sessions.
I wanted to help her. I thought of several people whose names
I could give her. Once again, it seemed that my good behavior
and knowledge could save everything. I didn't question my inten-
tions.

In my next dream my old friend Joe and I were riding together
in a badly-driven car towards St. Louis. I tried to explain it
all to him while bracing myself for a crash. When I woke it was
the last edge of summer. The wild plants have set hard nutritious
kernals, and the birds stay away from the seed I put out daily.
Food is plentiful and the hard weather has not come.