12/14/2006

American Sculpture Gardening


We are gardeners gardening in the most extravagant garden
"Do you want tea?" yes of course I want tea
of course I want tea
they're looking at us everywhere
there's little cameras looking at us
there's sculptures looking at us
and we're just gardening
. . .

In this expensive garden there's a hole chewed through the rat trap
in this neighborhood the rats have smaller rats
that they pay to do things for them
like chew holes through rat traps

In this garden the gardeners are artists
immigrants
innkeepers
botanists
countrymen
In this garden we artfully pick up wind blown leaves w/ our hands
and put them in our bag

Here I'm raking the leaves and my dreams
through the Mondo Grass