The Alan Sondheim Mail Archive

October 27, 2004


The death of a small wasp


How wonderful the work of Nature is!
I looked at the tiny wasp through an antique microscope.
The wasp was our pet.
It lived with us for several weeks.
Then one day, it died, of natural causes.
The bristles are perfectly arranged on the legs.
The lenses are crisp and beautiful, the eyes! the eyes!
Everything is as it should be.
Such structures! Such configurations!
The wasp is thread-wasted and quite small.
I will pray for the wasp.
Such perfect design, such eloquence!
Nothing is happening here, nothing, nothing!
It is all useless, it didn't multiply, emptied.

And the World is emptied of meaning.
And we are the hard-scrabble savanna primates who did it.
Before us! Everything little thing!
Inconceivable structures, amazing configurations!
Now, nothing corrodes, nothing coheres.
We violate the universe, we slaughter!

I believe nothing, I will pray for the wasp!
I will pray for the wasp!

o violence! o melody!
my nightmare that blood-darfur that blood-iraq
consequence of http://www.asondheim.org/mynight.bmp
that i cannot bring myself to starvation
nor can i bring myself to sharp and injurious sense
i work in this village and i produce
one after another, these images
lurid and furious and stereotyped, i draw them
over and over again, from templates supplied
& that there is no face
& that there is no skin
& that of obvious consequence
of o violence! o melody!
of obvious consequence of the production of this village
and the supplier of templates and numerous darfur and iraq


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