DIALOGUE WITH THE MIRROR

Dialogue with the Mirror



fountain
that never refrains
from drifting its waters
where again?

if I try to stop them,
I take me for a ride;
if I dare follow the tide,
I lose us both of sight

water meant
less to dull
than
to drown

FAITS DIVERS

Gossip magazines

in attendance rooms

may always benefit you

with the very latest news

on who's still alive

and who is otherwise

(like the doc)  already late.

                    

Just as a channeling medium

I get big trouble diagnosing

the living from the dead.

Thus, the last occasion I had

to skim through one of those

involuntary inobituaries,

it came to my system as a shock

to have suddenly rediscovered

the beaming smilingly liveliness

of two guys at least

I had thought previously deceased.

(Oh, just as an afterthought

I should add that out of

sheer scientific instinct,

I double-checked the mags

only to find they all dated back

to two or three years ago.

So, if the methusalahs keep

on business indeed,

I still don't know).