PETER GIZZI

REVIVAL (Uddrag)

for Gregory Corso (1930-2001)

It’s good to be dead in America
with the movies, curtains and drift,
the muzak in the theater.
It’s good to be in a theater waiting
for The Best Years of Our Lives to begin.
Our first night back, we’re here
entertaining a hunch our plane did crash
somewhere over the Rockies, luggage
and manuscripts scattered, charred fragments
attempting to survive the fatal draft.
To be dead in America at the movies
distracted by preview music in dimming lights.