i want a poetics of sleeping in / i want a poetics of seriously disciplined rigorous indolence / i want a poetics of chance and fortuitous accident / i want a poetics of long walks / i want a poetics of delineated ontology like the unfolding of a menu with good appetite / i want a poetics of skin meat and bone / i want a poetics of metaphysics without using the word soul
i want a poetics of sense like the smell of patchouli among a crowd of friends gathered in golden gate park / i want a poetics of catcalls and playing the dozens / i want a poetics of the word / i want a poetics of lipsmack and fingerlick / i want a poetics of fucking / i want a poetics of a frame of film / i want a poetics of ribcracking bearhugs / i want a poetics of the workweek and the weekend / i want a poetics of collapsed time in evidence that existence is solely in the present / i want a poetics of memory and anticipation so that the present is never forgotten
i want a poetics of men with women of women with women of men with men of women with men / i want a poetics of shit / i want a poetics of alchemy just as rimbaud envisioned it / i want a poetics of irony like the ironing of clothes for the workday / i want a poetics of gutbusting laughter / i want a poetics of film criticism / i want a poetics of death / i want a poetics of wide-eyed unbelief / i want a poetics of fuck you / i want a poetics of the middle-finger / i want a poetics of the street corner and the office cubicle / i want a poetics of arrivals from over there
i want a poetics of sex in language / i want a poetics of life into life and death into death just as rene char wanted / i want a poetics of the elegant equation / i want a poetics of many englishes / i want a poetics of hard numbers / i want a poetics of the kind spicer wanted to use real lemons when writing his letters to lorca / i want a poetics of the word lemon
