The World Doesn't End

[my mother was]

[Scaliger turns deadly]

[I was stolen]

[It's a store]

[She's pressing me]

[We were so poor]

[I am the last]

[Everybody knows the]

[He held the Beast]

[It was the epoch]

[Ghost stories written]

[In the fourth year]

[The city had fallen]

[I Played in the Smallest Theatres]

[The stone is]

[They wheeled out]

[Lover of endless]

[The flies]

[History lesson]

Part II

[The hundred-year-old]

[In a forest of]

[Everything's foreseeable]

[He calls one dog]

[A dog with a soul]

[Time—the lizard]

[Margaret was copying]

[A poem about sitting]

[Dear Friedrich]

[Tropical luxuriance]

[The clouds told him]

[Are Russian cannibals]

[An actor pretending]

[The dead man]

[My guardian angel]

[The dog went]

[Things were not]

[A hen larger]

[The old farmer]

[The rat kept]

[O witches, O poverty]

[Once I knew]

[The ideal spectator]

[Thousands of old men]

[My thumb is]

[Gospel]

Part III

[M.]

[A century]

[A black child]

[Police dogs]

[Ambiguity created by]

[The time of minor poets]

[At least four]

[Comedy of errors]

[The fat man]

[A week-long holiday]

[Lots of people]

[O the great God]

[I knew a night owl]

[My father loved]

[An arctic voyager]

[All this gets us]

[From inside the pot]

[Where ignorance is]

[He had mixed up]

[Someone shuffles]

[A much dwindled]

[My Secret Identity Is]