City Eclogue: Pages 54-55

     The poem that really caught my eye, and I mean really, is found on pages 54-55.  What I thought was funny, was how the poem opens up.  First, it sounds all elegant and very complex, something that might need re-reading and some of that over-analysis we all think we need when reading these kinds of intricate poems.  It even goes so far as to use the word après, which needed me to google it in order to even get a grip of what I was reading.  So to re-cap, it starts off all elegant until I finally get passed the that fancy word.  This is where the funny part comes in.  Now, I'm not sure what this poem is even really about, something that has to do with some mob bosses getting paid.  Nonetheless, I discovered that every time there was a long pause between words, you could easily replace those long pauses with curse words.  For example,

     "And they say God

      this is a great fudging countryland
      of opportunity! Get me

      a piece of that shiz"

And so on.  I don't know if I'm just losing it, but I'm pretty sure I'm right on this one.