AVAILABILITY
Whatever and it’s yours,
and if you want an elegy for it, then that
too,
funds, salvation, mathematical software for
determining your future
emotional state, aquarium space and regular
space,
a variety of spaces can all be yours. For my
love, for you, a tour,
a hundred guided tours through buildings long
abandoned.
Works, guns, things rusting in your hands and
on the floor.
Additionally, dogs: deaf danes, black pups,
border
collies that come stuffed in boxes. All of
actor Wil Wheaton’s
thoughts, collected. The world bursting ahead
of this. And positions: on all fours,
clutching pens in fist, scrawling your name on
the hardwood
that’s baked all day in sun. Sure. Connectors,
the sexiest man alive. Shimmering wifi
everywhere.
Princes. Prints. And euthanasia: a hundred
doors
opening in front of you until they curl up and
close.
And yes. C’est oui. And wine. Manuals for
response to wine
and how to respond to those who don’t respond
to you
when under wine. Try Coors
instead. Some girls like ponies. Antique dress
forms
and wingback chairs with your name burned into
the wood
below the upholstery. Huge cats, and glass
homes and stores
and office space. The density of things begins
increasing
and I am stuck right here beneath the war that
emanates from boors
who litter the television channels. Off and
gone and elegy in less
than a second. A Kubrick theme. And feeds:
jars and jars
of them in pantries everywhere. Something to
eat, aquifers
returning water to the surface. Kittens.
Gloss. Stars.
Runtime patterns. Songbirds’ songs. Bikinis.
Steady states.
Commemorative plates.
AVAILABILITY
What is also is always
and it
is is it’s, and if you want an
elegy for it,
we can be that also, mathematical
software for determination of
your future emotional country,
aquarium places and regular places—
all is all and all for you. For my dear
for you, a trip; you will be led on hundreds
of trips
through buildings or men in the act of
building.
Work, weapons, things rusting in your hands
and on the ground. In addition, dogs: deaf Danes,
blackly pups, borders stuffed come Collies,
and that, all that a world of that
in boxes, packed, unpacked, thrown out.
All actors, after the thoughts of Wil Wheaton
Are gone, and then that is gone too, that is, gathered.
The world bursting before this, before you
thought of this.
And positions: reverse those that grasp
ball-point pens in fists,
and ink away. Those who paint their names on
walls
throughout the city and bake away the day in
sun.
Certainty. Connectors,
the sexy man living underneath you. Princes.
Priceless.
Pleasures. Pressures. And aid for the dead who
are just beyond us
at all times: a hundred doors that open before
you,
as your phone rings ringtones and your dials
all whir
and coo and close.
And yes. Oui. And wine. Answers
for questions on wine and on those
who do not answer to you. Everything swaddled
in static, in clothing, in forms and wingback
chairs
that you love.
Upheavals. Gigantic cats, and homes and stores
and office rooms emptied of light and voices
and meaningless waiting.
The density of the things begins to increase
and I
am available here for you, under the war
and the news and the men who scatter TVs
into canals in a disorderly manner.
But I am off and gone and elegy in less
than a second. Gone Kubrick. Gone subject.
Gone lining and gleaming. Containers for ashes
exist in pantries everywhere. If needed.
Gone something, to get something to eat,
and if aquifers returned shamrock shakes
to the surface, still chilly,
then we could have called this love.
The brightness of kittens. Like stars.
Hold countries firmly or they slip away.
Keep it all in your memory.
Keep it all on your memory disks.
Ander Monson is the author of three books: Neck Deep and Other Predicaments (essays, Graywolf, 2007), Other Electricities (fiction, Sarabande, 2005), and Vacationland (poems, Tupelo, 2005).
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