An odd string of a word and I’m gonna give it my best shot here but
is it like skidding off the road? Not following in Latin,
but ah follow we must if we are still playing and we are still praying
for a happy end. Ms. Stein tries it out over many, many pages
but also too who has that kind of time anymore, I say.
I interrupt myself with tions and shoulds, but is it all just
the elegant variations of a sentence doing or do you
think its more like shifting sand and what sentence
is even stable anyway. No, some things are stable.
If you’ve ever been in a waltz, you have turned in circles,
these sentences that veer off into the judging parts
of the ballroom where, look at them go.
No, this is not one of the well-known devices and words
are hard at work here and I don’t even know anymore
but it pleases me so what pleases you?
We are in Gertrude’s room now and, egads,
how the Picassos scowl down on us. If a sentence
lacks transitions, Madam, if the abrupt change of face
isn’t really a change at all, do you know what I mean,
the complicated, meandering re-association of wow,
what a disguise in a single sentence, what a getup!
Impressive misdirection, just turn it around
if it makes you crazy but no, I suppose we tried that, too.
Why did I come here and do you hear it,
the sound of all this time, but back to this,
I don’t know why I came here
and what was I saying?