Nobody

Worn marble terminal steps
Deliver you fully clothed
Into the path of vague me,
Hypothetical observer lately
Employed on tachyons backwards
Through time from the point of impact.
Now I am wondering who did
Those charts, those baby blue
Stylized muscular constellations?
And what scaffolding? Of course
I do not see you and we go
Down and lie like stunned Pisces
Halves tied tails together
By the rubber cable of 6:30.
I've worked late. Guards
Approach. Summoned to the acoustic room
Baffled against any voice of mine.
You follow them up the marble.
Does the falcon know the falconer?
No, and the stupid bird has been let
Loose indoors. Refugees
Lounge at the information kiosk.
I telephone and accept assignment
Riding collapsing stars to singularity.

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