Endings

A pastiche poem.

ENDINGS

The emptiness is full of light

Ending with the “experience” of life

That is   solemn we have ended

Feign a great calm; all gay transport soon ends

I’m reauthoring the text

Copayment, Outplacement

The end of the road is a flower which walks with you

As SLow aS Possible

In art I saw career; in poetry I saw possibility

Something good will come out of all things yet

A poet might become a breed of technician

All to no end save beauty – the eternal –

The voyage of the soul – not life alone

Beginning at the end as we must

I turn and give my tale an end

I could use another ending

Is it the beginning or end?

What have we done!

 ©2012  September

Lalarukh Lasharie

       Each line is taken from the following: 

1.      Song of Ending by Frank O’Hara

2.      Interview with Ashbery conducted by Daniel Kane

3.      Ending by Emily Dickson

4.      An Ecstasy is Inconvenient by Lorine Neidieker

5.      Erica Baum on Dog Ears:  An interview with Mousse

6.      Albany by Ron Silliman

7.      Way by Tristan Tazara

8.      Organ2/ ASLAP composed by John Cage

9.      The End of History by Kenneth Goldsmith

10.   Big Sur by Jack Kerouac

11.   The Xenotext Experiment: An interview with Christian Bok

12.   The Crowd at the Ball Game by William Carlos Williams

13.   Gliding Over All by Walt Whitman

14.   Revelation by Cid Corman

15.   The Not Tale (Funeral) in Meddle English by Caroline Bergvall

16.   Screen Test for Another Colonoscopy by Michael Magee

17.   Two, Three by Rae Armantrout

18.   The End of the American Century by Allen Ginsberg