To Sum Up

Well, you might as well throw that out because there isn’t

going to be a biography and no one

is going to care what you thought of the Dance of Death.

It was

a good bit more distant and

less final before you knew the prose

would scurry right into not scurrying

along the wainscotting that decorates your life-

lessness,

a gentle book hitting you

right in the head like

the last one you didn’t read and no one else did either.