Coming Soon in A Dream Near You

  Magellan's Log Copyright © 2001 Texas Chapbook Press
www.texaschapbookpress.com

It's hard to walk
when you're continually bumped,
and hailed by casting calls
for second leads
in other people's
nocturnal omissions.

The mistake of the young is to try to impose their foolishness on the world. It is also the mistake of the old, who call their foolishness wisdom.
Given the visible, the French theorists were of course right. Given the invisible, their finely wrought arguments were no more than clever crayola scratchings on the kindergarten wall.