Always Once More

once more say you are the country

take almost any path you please

& ten to one you’re down a dale

& left there by a pool and stream

there stand trees

each a hollow trunk

there sleeps meadow

& there sleep cattle

up from yonder cottage

goes a sleepy sympathy

deep woodlands mazy ways

the scent of a symphony bathed blue

but though thus tranced

as by a cataract of sand

would you travel there

why upon your voyage as a passenger

did you feel such a charge

when told that you and your boat

were now out to sea

why do the old hold the sea holy

ungraspable phantom vapors

both of us pull & pass

buttered & salted & peppered

you  grow hazy about the eyes

& press yourself to the research

you grow quarrelsome

after four hours of sleep

Balzac Zola & Proust tease you

no never go as a passenger

false cognates close parallels

the same lot as usual

Esperanto coffee & drugs

always once more say repeat

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