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Heimweh Funicular [for Louis Zukofsky]
It was not
the socialism
we dreamed of:
principled but allowing
for private
bourgeois niceties,
rebuilding a rare
Hispano-Suiza,
ejecting a joke
against the state,
staging an exhibition
above a hosiery
shop, amassing
polite glass
sculptures or time
in the presence
of another’s
musical giftedness,
avoiding the over
presence of the proletarian,
acceptance of a pleasant
under-investment
in the political. These
were the orchestral
aspects of life
to which the citizen
devoted her most
painstaking labor,
though
the public
would scarcely
hear them.
the socialism
we dreamed of:
principled but allowing
for private
bourgeois niceties,
rebuilding a rare
Hispano-Suiza,
ejecting a joke
against the state,
staging an exhibition
above a hosiery
shop, amassing
polite glass
sculptures or time
in the presence
of another’s
musical giftedness,
avoiding the over
presence of the proletarian,
acceptance of a pleasant
under-investment
in the political. These
were the orchestral
aspects of life
to which the citizen
devoted her most
painstaking labor,
though
the public
would scarcely
hear them.
Posted 05/08/12
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