can do that while I’m biting this.”
I suspect they are close to the angels:
everybody gets one of each.
And anyone that faithful gets the run
of the land, which is nice recompense,
our backyard, having been so small,
our walks, so few.
“Yes, yes, get off your ass. That’s right.
How else will we get where we’re going?”
Fr. Bob looks so old at 82
And it’s happening to all of us.
We get up each morning
to see what the mirror’s been up to,
move through the seas of our flesh—
which ain’t too happy about it.
Well, let that be.
They are the world and all of its woes:
neighbors, garbage men, late again.
None of us ever expected this,
the quiet rebellion, one cell at a time.
(And rebels never know
where they are going, do they?
That’s part of the charm: trying
to picture an end their new order
can never create.)
Here, though, I saw him on Facebook,
in his rocking chair: birthday, snappy
shirt beneath the sports coat,
Madonna House north woods porch.
Some people shouldn’t leave.
It’s really that simple.
There should be, instead, a field
of statues: folks just like them,
all life-sized, not on pedestals,
but in the middle, moderate to high grass,
flowers there, their favorite books, pencils—
no sign telling you how to get there!
I don’t want to go,
but you can count me as a breath
who came after.
And if at times I feel like Pigpen
at the University, my rising dust cloud,
charming—because contained;
as if I’ve become a kind of local color
in the halls, a man who might be seen,
talking to himself on a corner
of the stage, next to Schroeder
who is almost listening, at his piano;
Lucy, finally dancing—at the climax
of the Christmas show, I know too
that I have somewhere to go
when this night is over, the last
trace of carolers, lingering
in the animated air:
to the crib, (Schroeder’s music
again, now distant, soft) where dirt,
airborne debris are not new or
unexpected, where the ones who do
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