at the moment
when it ends,
but when
certainty is sentiment,
That’s a nice way
all beings go in peace
a man and a woman
but when
nothing more
can be added to it,
and nothing less
subtracted—
in other words, when
can be added to it,
and nothing less
subtracted—
in other words, when
certainty is sentiment,
and clairvoyance
is distant past.
That’s a nice way
of saying
that acquiescence
is preferable to out-
and-out dismissal.
From then on, perhaps
that acquiescence
is preferable to out-
and-out dismissal.
From then on, perhaps
all beings go in peace
to love and serve
an afterthought:
an afterthought:
a man and a woman
and a blackbird,
for instance, are
dust—or
are finishing
one another’s sentences
in heaven
while the studio
audience laughs.
