gives gifts gives a diversity of gifts
a sign
the life of which is its use
which is Wittgenstein’s The Blue & Brown Books which was our conversation then
Toby
and I when I arrived/right off
the bus young men on unpaved/dirt streets of the silver town
the life of which
is its use as adornment a gift among a diversity of gifts
a poet’s thinking the long labor with words
the tenses
want wanted have/had wanted not what a young man was so wanting and wanting
but what a
song wants just a few a spoonful of the right the rough and the smooth