<lines (not in order) from tate's "museum of animated nature">
2006-08-16.2:29 p.m.


lines (not in order) from "Museum of Animated Nature"
James Tate


Why don't you hide?  Everybody saw you.

He moved with fear, she with pain.
A perfect ending for the stupid story,
starring James Tate
and his dog fear.
She never actually appears.

What we lie on has long ago disappeared.
I can't imagine that.

When your dreams are recorded by spiders
nothing is forgotten, even tomorrow.

Why are you hiding?  Nobody saw you.

You think you are going to work
but you are going to the cemetery.

You think you are going to the cemetery
but you are going to work.



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