Schooled
by Paul Vangelisti
As in scholar me collar me
accustomed mornings to dwell
on the unfinished speechlessness of
very many days not unlike this
without apparent reason or motive
but a lifetime in front of a certain window
willfully drifting in a favorite chair
never in any conspicuous position
nothing noticeably out-of-the-ordinary
from any other middle-aged semi-reclusive
polite friendly enough male or female
suspected of devoting much of their time
to some rather nebulous activity which
only most accidentally resembles writing.
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Paul Vangelisti is chair of the graduate writing program at Otis College of Art & Design in Los Angeles. His Embarrassment of Survival: Selected Poems 1970-2000 has just appeared from Marsilio/Agincourt (New York). |