For You Today

Of course there is a jackhammer. And a view, like Hopper, but happier. Of course there is the newspaper—the daily herald of our powerlessness. Easy go, easy come:thwash, the next day another, an example of everything that gets done in the dark. Like the initiative of the crocuses from a snow that was, as it works out, warming them. Or in this case, the strange October weather warming them. There were the conclusions we jumped to. To which we jumped. There was pain, and then there was suffering. Of course there was my ambition to offer you the world, but one that I have rearranged to make sense. Here are all the sensations of being alive at the turn of the twenty-first century, here’s how they ring out against each other, here’s how one brings out the sense of another, here is the yellow next to the fathomless blue.