the art of choosing what you already have
one of those apartments
you’re the ghost in your own advert for the future
an investment through which people merely pass through as waste-generators
it feels like heaven
and as always what if I lived here
can you get rid of all your stuff
like one of those peasant children locked in a room by an aristocrat
to see if he or she would speak Latin or Greek or Hebrew or Aramaic
but oh what a lovely church
everything we need we have
.
and my goodness it gets strange the body
the art of staying light slows down
the art of choosing what you already have
.
and we invent a drug called kudos which gives you the feeling of recognition
thus solving the narcissism crisis
the comfort-void problem
and I remember in the 90s all the boring philosophers were talking about recognition
and they were right
and we were wrong
.
and the dream of lists
the ultimate list
to not do the things on the list
.
and your Guardian angel is called Barry
The right shoulder
and the lovely woman who said that every child at a Steiner school gets an angel
No I don’t know if that’s true
But how lovely, to be given an angel!
But maybe, huh, they pick you or you pick them,
In any case, one angel, maybe some people need more than
Given, picked, picked
.
Be careful crossing the road
.
And some cities, through no fault of their own
Seem to bring work.
.
You are an oaf.
.
And the second reel underneath the first
Inside voice
We made a comedy of this
Our greatest achievement!
Or up there, at least
.
Did the Greeks have a word for the love of learning?
I am sure that they did
The poet and the philosopher trying to give back the sun to the sun