The Table (For Rod Anstee)
“The table isn’t immortal, though it hums a tune of going on forever.”
–Ron Padgett
my nerves fail watching the soccer
I read and listen instead
it doesn’t work; we lose
late
again
at least Ron Padgett is in the world
saying the things he says
in just the way that he says them
at the moment we need to hear them
Cameron Anstee 