Intermittent (Seats Emptied)
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The game is the empty seat.

Stopping and starting
at intervals

the frame is
you are interrupting nothing.

Go on

the long league of tile
toward her chair,

feel the tight-needle-breeze
fan the pit
through the port-bar.

Near an elevator
“in case of fire”

the game goes up
(pausing from time to time)
between fire and living,

as if we all can FIRE
                        CALL
                        CANCEL
what we have taken

in the storage
of random nights—each person
stepping

trouble-foot
over trouble-foot.

All we have
is
our feet falling in.

We might as well go into rooms
which were not, but wait to become


some small-delicate-precise
where we swim the lengths of ourselves

(it has to be done).

You might as well go
into the game; she

might as well be a cigar.

Into the game she,
you, might as well go—
it has to be done—

where we swim the lengths of ourselves

(some SMALL-DELICATE-PRECISE
which we’re not, but wait to become).

We might as well go into rooms,
our feet falling in
is
all we have
over trouble-foot,
trouble-foot
stepping
of random nights—each person
in the storage.

What we have taken,
cancel.
Call

as if we fire
(between fire and living)
pausing from time to time.

The game goes up
“in case of fire”
near an elevator

feel the tight-needle-breeze
toward her chair,

the long league of tile
goes on
interrupting nothing.

The frame is
at intervals
stopping and starting;

the game is the empty seat.