for Douglas Wilson
Listen, he said, the sound of flies
Above the riffle, that bodes well.
The old man sat, in sad surmise,
And thought of revolution. Hell,
He told us, when the world was new
And we ran guns and gerunds sang,
I watched the mountains turning blue.
Ecclesiastics never rang,
And girls were disappointed I
Moved them along. Now I can hope
That when my grey habiliments die,
The Queen will wear a dab of crêpe.
The music of satiety,
Which has no wings and does not grow
In memory, plays endlessly
And only strikes the notes we know.
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