Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Wednesday: Dateline Theesen

wednesday
German lessons
hiding the ADD
from the teacher
pretending to be there
when i'm not

old Heidigger stressed the being
and the being there
above the beingness
and i
can act them all

it's been forty years
in the making
this deficit of mine
and i can no longer
attend
to it
to you
to me
to anything

attention, attention,
the mind is in the room,
the garden,
the moon,
the last century,
the next,
i cannot find all the pieces
and if i did
i wouldn't sit still
long enough
to assemble them

i am a humble man
humbled by my inability
to display my proper ego
a terrible thing to see
if i could remember
where i left it

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