Dust
Shards or fragments on the way to further fragments and shards.
Wednesday, May 22, 2002 :::
What
having been
is never
and never was
will be the
history of our race
history itself effaced
No matter the marks we now make
the Erasure which leaves no trace
will leave no trace
Smoothly
we glide down this glass
till the glass itself
has no name
And our slide no longer sensed
not even as drifting into passed
is no longer slide
nor sensed
A “once was”
amended to “never”
won’t even be amended
having never been
And what has been
will never be
nor was
the names of our days
effaced
Thus the history of this race
--Gottfried Bean (tr. mine)
[For an antidote to this work of G.B. one may go to my own Clay Testament at http://www.necessaryprose.com, the best of my efforts to have kept the fragments in vaselike order.]
