Lines & Smudges By Cid Corman

1
They don’t mean
anything —

They’re only
words. Like us.


2
Do we have to eat
the shit — to get the
idea of it?


3
Music is
a common
fragrance. We
all do stink.


4
Where is the stone an
animal ever buried
another under?


5 — IDEOGRAMS
Ideas
registered
in grams — it

just Roman
characters
aint. Weighs time.


6
It’s us — all along
There is no other story
to be told — John Donne.