Quite a lot happened in the 20th century
but apparently it’s possible to ignore a lot of it.

How many poems tell you there is somewhere else to be while reminding you you’re here? Answer ____________
How many poems describe what mundanely is instead of what extraordinarily also is? Answer ____________

It’s “Doublemint”
which presumably means you get
double the mint. It begs
a question

We turned around fast and faster
only to find that what once was there
had been whisked away into the darkness.

Nowhere in especial to go;
Nothing in especial to contemplate;
Just when I thought things were going extraordinarily
They became “a small matter for wonder”

I’ll have a drink but only a sip for I do not want to lose track of myself in the forests of distraction —

Whoever likes may come and visit during the day –
this is where we have agreed, at the last, to humble ourselves.

When any evil is about to befall us the priestess grows a beard —
that’s how we know when to run and hide.

All the tribes which I have mentioned live together –
they wear the linen tunic, which does not require brooches.

For it is written
Thou shalt forever be
Fast asleep at the best of times