Suzerainty is impositable in this nominating convention hoopla.
Notable moments though in the general plethora.
Socrates and Li Po
saying ta ta to
T~ T~.
Sartre doing an uttermost Zero Mostel.
Hubble describing the gavel as God tries
to get word in edgewise.
Velimir Khlebnikov
TWO POEMS·
The lice had blind faith, and they prayed to me.
Every morning they would congregate on my clothes,
every morning I visited punishment upon them
and listened to them crackle and die.
But they kept on returning again and again
in a quiet worshipful wave.
*
Russia, I give you my divine
white brain. Be me. Be Khlebnikov.
I have sunk a foundation deep in the minds
of your people, I have laid down an axis.
• Editor's Note: These poems are from
The King
rif
Time,
to be published by Harvard
University Press. Translation copyright
C
Dia Art Foundation , 1984.
