Chapter 28 Ode to Sadness

Sadness, scarab with seven crippled feet, spiderweb egg, scramble-brained rat, bitch skeleton: No entry here. Don't come in. Go away. go back south with your umbrella, go back north with your serpents teeth. A poet lives here. No sadness may cross this threshold. Through these windows comes the breath of the world, fresh red roses, flags embedded with the victories of the people. No. No entry. Flap your bats wings, I will trample the feathers that fall from your mantle, I will sweep the bits and pieces of your carcass to the four corners of the wind,

I will wring your neck, I will stitch your eyelids shut, I will sew your shroud, sadness, and bury your rodent bones beneath the springtime of an apple tree.