Addendum to the Addendum: Ana Ng

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1. 2 More Jons says

   December 16, 2007 at 8:54 pm

   Make a hole with a gun perpendicular / To the name of this town in a desktop globe / Exit wound in a foreign nation / Showing the home of the one this was written for / My apartment looks upside down from there / Water spirals the wrong way out the sink / And her voice is a backwards record / It’s like a whirlpool, and it never ends / (Ann) / Ana Ng and I are getting old / and we still haven’t walked in the glow / of each other’s majestic presence / (Listen Ann) / Listen Ana hear my words / They’re the ones you would think I would say / if there was a me for you / All alone at the ’64 World’s Fair / Eighty dolls yelling “Small girl after all” / Who was at the DuPont Pavillion? / Why was the bench still warm? Who had been there? / Or the time when the storm tangled up the wire / To the horn on the pole at the bus depot / And in back of the edge of hearing / These are the words that the voice was repeating: / (Ann) / Ana Ng and I are getting old / and we still haven’t walked in the glow / of each other’s majestic presence / (Listen Ann) / Listen Ana hear my words / They’re the ones you would think I would say / if there was a me for you / When I was driving once I saw this painted on a bridge: / “I don’t want the world, I just want your half” / They don’t need me here and I know you’re there / Where the world goes by like the humid air / And it sticks like a broken record / Everything sticks like a broken record / Everything sticks until it goes away / And the truth is we don’t know anything / (Ann) / Ana Ng and I are getting old / and we still haven’t walked in the glow / of each other’s majestic presence / (Listen Ann) / Listen Ana hear my words …

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