Raymond Farr
Apparitional States
7.
I had all
These questions
Concerning
Who’s Afraid of
Virginia Woolf?
& about the subway car
Missing
Its 4th wheel
& steering
Straight into
An ocean of bicycles
& I couldn’t
Help but wonder
What part
Of my dream
About a ghost
Locomotive
Wasn’t more than
Just a little
Homo erotic
But I was
Reaching ahead
Of what
I was doing
You were almost
My perfect woman
& I was
Almost an insect
& yeah
I wanted to
See yr face
Better
Meaning
Something I
Told you
Was only the ash
& the dirt
Of what I
Believed
& everything
Was dark
& cold
& the world
Underground
Just part of
A design—
This pure
Black
Soulless
Hallucination
Without
Eyes
But there was
Nothing
To see, you sd—
The subway
Bending into
The darkness!
Raymond Farr is author of Ecstatic/.of facts (Otoliths 2011), & Writing What For? across the Mourning Sky (Blue & Yellow Dog 2012), sic transit—“g” (Blue & Yellow Dog 2012, 2016), Poetry in the Age of Zero Grav (Blue & Yellow Dog 2015) & 2 e-chapbooks, Eating the Word NOISE! (White Knuckle Chaps 2015), &A Journey of Haphazard Miles (ALT POETICS 2016). Raymond is editor of Blue & Yellow Dog, now archived at http://blueyellowdog.weebly.com& publisher/editor of a new poetry blog The Helios Mss at theheliosmss.blogspot.com
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7.
I had all
These questions
Concerning
Who’s Afraid of
Virginia Woolf?
& about the subway car
Missing
Its 4th wheel
& steering
Straight into
An ocean of bicycles
& I couldn’t
Help but wonder
What part
Of my dream
About a ghost
Locomotive
Wasn’t more than
Just a little
Homo erotic
But I was
Reaching ahead
Of what
I was doing
You were almost
My perfect woman
& I was
Almost an insect
& yeah
I wanted to
See yr face
Better
Meaning
Something I
Told you
Was only the ash
& the dirt
Of what I
Believed
& everything
Was dark
& cold
& the world
Underground
Just part of
A design—
This pure
Black
Soulless
Hallucination
Without
Eyes
But there was
Nothing
To see, you sd—
The subway
Bending into
The darkness!
Raymond Farr is author of Ecstatic/.of facts (Otoliths 2011), & Writing What For? across the Mourning Sky (Blue & Yellow Dog 2012), sic transit—“g” (Blue & Yellow Dog 2012, 2016), Poetry in the Age of Zero Grav (Blue & Yellow Dog 2015) & 2 e-chapbooks, Eating the Word NOISE! (White Knuckle Chaps 2015), &A Journey of Haphazard Miles (ALT POETICS 2016). Raymond is editor of Blue & Yellow Dog, now archived at http://blueyellowdog.weebly.com& publisher/editor of a new poetry blog The Helios Mss at theheliosmss.blogspot.com