Just Stuff

When I heard that I put on a shirt and went out to beg. When I did that I got althlete’s foot on my foot. When I saw that nobody who saw it too took pity. When they did that I stopped where I was and got mad. When that happened I said that we were in a rat race. When I said that everybody who heard me said so too. When we did that we began not to see ourselves in mirrors. When mirrors get in a poem there’s mirrors in a poem. When I understood that it happens every day. When it happened every day I saw that it was useless fighting. When I realized that I quit washing my feet. When that happened somebody said it was my fault. When I heard that I put on a shirt and went out to beg. When I did that I got althlete’s foot on my foot. When I saw that nobody who saw it too took pity. When they did that I stopped where I was and got mad.

October 1972