As I Die Lying

The
truth is
we're talking truth

closure
is closer
than I remember

Comments

[Steve Tills]

This is "a very strange" poem (by which I mean Excellent), the huge "gap" between the first stanza, and how neither tie in "easily" to the Faulkner, allusion. Unless... Unless maybe this is George Bush and entourage in their last days? That's my first read of it, anyhow. Neat poem, Crag! Again, the "seemingly different discourse" between the first stanza and the second (and then between those and the title, to boot) make this like 3 poems in one. Again, "a strangeness," as in Watten's or the Russians "ostrananie," I think it's called...