Dream Song 45

77 Dream Songs (1964)

He stared at ruin. Ruin stared straight back.He thought they was old friends. He felt on the stairwhere her papa found them barethey became familiar. When the papers were lostrich with pals’ secrets, he thought he had the knackof ruin. Their paths crossed

and once they crossed in jail; they crossed in bed;and over an unsigned letter their eyes met,and in an Asian citydirectionless & lurchy at two & three,or trembling to a telephone’s fresh threat,and when some wired his head

to reach a wrong opinion, ‘Epileptic’.But he noted now that: they were not old friends.He did not know this one.This one was a stranger, come to make amendsfor all the imposters, and to make it stick.Henry nodded, un-.

77 Dream Songs (1964)