*This poem is conceived as a phenomenological parallel to, and ultimately a laudatory allusion to, Williams’ “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus.”
..
On a TV
Plays a music video
In a living room in a mansion,
Among ambitious ornaments
.
And in the music video,
A mix more acoustic than humanly possible
Emits a canary-like proclamation
That is simple,
That is nervous,
That is tired and
That is true,
.
With people overwhelmed and
Perceiving their own mortality
As crows crowd the electrical wires
Under an ancient moon and
.
The people are escaping,
This escape rendered in moving picture
That sits in this mansion.
.
The next year will bring
Copious undulations of identity,
Will bring serpents that coax
The lower elements
And
.
Sirens, pale, buxom and pure,
That shoot hearts down with
Shadows of furies and
This will be all that lasts,
As a loud boom will emanate from
The greenhouse next door
.
Which is Kurt Cobain shooting himself.
..
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