"Invasion of the Body Snatchers" by Bernadette Mayer
Moon out and no snow yet, November first The first anniversary of our wedding and The day before election day, 1976, yesterday Was Halloween, next Friday I have an appointment With the dentist and the following Tuesday is Lewis's thirty-second birthday, exactly one week After that Marie will be eleven months old. The day before yesterday we turned the clocks back One hour which made it seem like every day Will have an extra hour in it, not only of darkness But of just plain time, the time I used to spend Skipping lunch is longer, the time for dinner Is too early now, the time for sunset comes too soon The time between dinner and Marie's bedtime is too long When it's time to go to bed there's still a few hours left To read, I'm dreaming twice as much as before I spend all my new time lying in bed thinking. Last night I saw "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" And tonight when I came into my room to go to work I found an old seedpod on the floor by my desk. In the movie if you see one of these it's time to die. It's time to write some letters, good cold air Comes in my window, it wakes me up, we had a bottle Of champagne and Marie went to sleep without crying It's time to read Fielding's Guide to European Travel And the Alice Toklas Cookbook again, a few books by John McPhee Our new American Heritage anniversary dictionary, The Adventures of a Mathematician by Stanislas Ulam And The Wild Boy of Aveyron by a behaviorist psychologist About a boy brought up by wolves