They're right, of course

for Bruce


It's going to change their army.
They were just never entitled to 
their army.


Now it's the other shoe
that needs to drop. And
I don't mean the DoMA.
I mean their waging wars
with a cult and not a draft.
So easy.

But sometimes they get, you know, confused,

and change their vows or the ground rules

that sustain all of us. It's cheery, then, to reflect on the past

and what it brought us. To take stone books down

from the shelf. It is good, in fact,

to let the present pass without commentary

for what it says about the future.

There was nothing carnal in the way omens became portents.

John Ashbery

Are you ticklish?

  A Worldly Country

Harper Collins, 2007©