| Goethe's Early Garden ~by Jim Carroll |
| If I worked in Goethe's early garden I would polish the furnace first For the hot flowers, then sculpt ice For the cool Flowers If I worked in Goethe's garden Then the ruins would fit and the errors come unmasked The tiny vegetables would be psychic by night and grow In bleached sand, ocean in hand Near by No sun fits this lattitude Accounts for my attitude |