Bill Knott World Poems
- 1. Obsolescent
Bending over like this to get my hands empty
Rummaging through the white trashcans out back
Of the Patent Office I find a kind of peace
Here in this warm-lit alley where no one comes.
... - 2. Excerpts From The Diary Of Damocles
I don't dare speak too loudly,
some timbres could be fatal--
that string is not too strong
... - 3. The Misunderstanding
I'm charmed yet chagrined by this misunderstanding--
As when, after a riot, my city's smashed-in stores appear all
Boarded up, billboarded over, with ads for wind-insurance.
Similarly, swimmingly, I miss the point. You too?
... - 4. An Instructor's Dream
Many decades after graduation
the students sneak back onto
the school-grounds at night
and within the pane-lit windows
... - 5. Heritage
â??...here thy generations endeth in accord.â?
I physically resemble my mother
And father and therefore must have been
... - 6. Dearth Demise
Satiety help me I have inhabit
of this world. Extant upon its designs
to be more aimlessly fluttering at
the window, to shadow all the patterns
... - 7. Weltende Variation # ?
The CIA and the KGB exchange Christmas cards
A blade snaps in two during an autopsy
The bouquet Bluebeard gave his first date reblooms
Many protest the stoning of a guitar pick
... - 8. Sonnet
The way the world is not
Astonished at you
It doesn't blink a leaf
When we step from the house
... - 9. The Enemy
Like everyone I demand to be
Defended unto the death of
All who defend me, all the
World's people I command to
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