Thursday, January 9, 2020

A Song by Nicolette Larsen

George Clooney, in the movies, always winds up,
No matter how textbook his hero's journey has been,
In the exact same place, sadder but wiser,
Awaiting some pointless finality ...

Whereas I'm not even the same person I was
A decade ago -- not just all the cells in my body
But my spirit too -- when I talk of my experience
It's like I'm quoting from a book I didn't write

And what I say slips in and out from infinity
That erases it from my memory instantly, like dreams,
Though it echoes in some ever-spinning record ...

Just today, for example, the radio played a song
By Nicolette Larsen and I sang along -- all the words --
Though I never have heard it before.