[Newspoetry] Denis Johnson poem
William Gillespie
gillespi at uiuc.edu
Thu Feb 24 21:45:38 CST 2000
OUR SADNESS
Theres a sadness about looking back when you get to the end:
a sadness that waits at the end of the street,
a cigaret that glows with the glow of sadness
and a cop in a yellow raincoat who says Its late,
its late, its sadness.
And its a sadness what theyve done to the women I loved:
they turned Julie into her own mother, and Ruthe--
and Ruthe I understand has been turned
into a sadness...
And when it comes time
for all of humanity to witness what its done
and every television is trained on the first people to see God and
they say
Houston,
we have ignition,
they wont have ignition.
Theyll have a music of wet streets
and lonely bars where piano notes
follow themselves into a forest of pity and are lost.
Theyll have sadness.
Theyll have
sadness, sadness, sadness.
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