Confucius Say
The dreams I can’t recall on waking
Must be shaking their heads if they were
Folk, from not a false universal
Sense of waste that extends to even
The airy nothing that they are – such
As, if the ruthless truth be quoted
From Quixote, we all of us are,
To borrow a necessarily
Highbrow no Hebrew thing, though I have
Never had dreams where my name was not
Cesar Aquino but something else,
Or Cesar Aquino but I was
Someone else, that would have been nightmare,
A German Expressionist 20s
Kino germane to the idea
Of I am as amnesia, when you
Like an idiot savant remember
All, everything except what you were,
If nothing scary compared to when
You seem to recall what you were not.
After Robertus Green
Sky blue.
Ocean blue.
Faraway blue.
Bluebird blue
Rose blue.
Dreamed blue.
Heard blue.
Worn blue.
Ah! but blue
Cheers,
Commandeers
Sierra Madre.
