Two Poems
by
Jame-Mac;eo Camier
ANOTHER LIFE
for Raymond Roussel
I
In a strange country, crowds gather and say, "Can you
imagine anything that threatens to be as pathetic as the boy in
love with the
idea
of motion?"
II
A bird flew into his hands (honestly) and beat its wings
as if it were a heart. Eventually, he threw it back into the air
before it died. Its ascension was in circles like a pebble cast into a
pond.
III
In a room furnished only with a naked light bulb and a
stool , a man in evening clothes plays the accordion for a plotted
plant. There is a word for this.
It
is the locusts' secret.
IV
"I won't be the victim of any more fictions. We have
created several attractive existences for me, but now I have come
ali ve."