Cedar Sigo

All This Time

for Ed Berrigan

                     Wake up

Feel around for shoes

Sit warm at the wooden table

                    Write a tower of praises (oblations?)
                     in cold steel
type

       in praise of Ed Berrigan Industries, its massive
                                                                     sign tilting over

17 Reasons Why

                    (Now taking off!)

the crypto
                liquid metal
skeleton

still shows under
                             patches of
torn
       ankylosaurus

       stickers

                                        We once got trapped in Mark’s painted

                                        side shack
                                                          illuminations
                                        (Back when Jack held the most titles….

I feel much tractor about things now
                                                                 (and Selected Poem)

I feel long house
needles point
                     Icarus shoes

                     Sloppily painted plates
stapled into a set

                                    A coliseum for playing out music and

                                    poetry’s distortions. A kind of signing off repeatedly,

                                   All this time.