TREE LIMBS DOWN
The poverty of having everything is not
wanting anything: I trudge down the mall halls
and see nothing wanting which would pick me
up: I stop at a cheap $ 79 piece of jewellry,
a little necklace dangler, and it has a diamond
chip in it hardly big enough to sparkle, but it
sparkles: a piece of junk, symbolically vast;
imagine, a life with a little sparkle in it, a
little sparkle like wanting something, like
wanting a little piece of shining, maybe the
worlds smallest piece of ruby: but if you have
everything
the big carats are merely heavy with price and
somebody, maybe, trying to take you over: the dull
game of the comers-on, waiting everywhere like
moray eels poked out of holes: what did Christ
say, sell everything and give to the poor, and
immediacy enters; daily bread is the freshest
kind: dates,even, laid up old in larders, are
they sweet: come off sheets of the golden
desert, knees weak and mouth dry, what would
you think of an oasis, a handful of dates, and
a clear spring breaking out from under some stones:
but suppose bread cant daily be found or no
oasis materializes among the shimmers: lining
the outside of immediacy, alas, is uncertainty:
so the costly part of the crust of morning
bread is not knowing it will be there: it has
been said by others, though few, that nothing
is got for nothing: so I am reconciled: I
traipse my dull self down the aisles of
desire and settle for nothing, nothing wanted,
nothing spent, nothing got.
--A. R. Ammons--
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