I had not thought of it before
let me assure you
the sculptures of all the gallery  
the sylvan mementoes
how can you spectacular
imagine a better architecture
a better self-portrait
or family history
you can guess at it
somehow or other ("the flies of the past")
what if you were projected
onto a scrim
of the Globe Theatre
anywhere you will
absolutely anywhere at all
the bric-à-brac and memorabilia
that suggests a calm œuvre
you can't remember how hard we try whatever
it is a calm self-parody
say the critics
a more spectacular thing the rest of it
rack it up set it up settle it
mix it up all in a box it settles
right where you want it right in a glass
as accurate in a thing as any could wish
in a technical sense
the sparkling movie stars
the trapeze artists
the musicologists
the Jews of a surrealist outlook
the vertical of all buildings
with the incanted statements of fiction
where haven't we been
just looking at things
over and over all again
from the very first to last things
eminently composed as friction
sidereally arranged as a diabolo
in a quiet neighborhood
the place where you live
the place where you all live here
or hereabouts looked at sincerely
as sincerely as you can
in these circumstances
in these very sincere circumstances
these hopeless conditions
the absence of position
the balk of sight
our world and its environs
last train out
last train in and out
the one you will remember
the last of all these things
whatever we have all seen

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