from Chameleon Series

(Leslie Scalapino, 1985)

Boys and men

in the

area where there

are shops

-- their life

coming

apart before

then time when

I'd die

-- and when

they would

The life led when

one's death

occurs

that life's coming

apart as well

that life

causes the other

lives

to come apart

as currently

lived by me

the others in the

vicinity

and by the

chameleon

he'd be

simply the flower

of the social

world

when that

occurs

the

motionless way of

life of

the men

by the housing

project

the women

leading

a motionless

way

of life

which is led

later on

in

the social

world

because

of

being motionless

comes apart

then