Coleridge smoked dope and wrote about Xanadu
At times I think Key West is Xanadu
And that Xanadu and Key West are a human mind.
The waves pass through the dock pylons.
An avalanche of cocaine hasn’t turned America into poets.
Plato loved the stars for an unchanging eternal pattern
I might hate them for that but they are beautiful.
The tide flows like the stars, but the sea is different.
The sea could never be unchanging, but it is always the sea.
Key West is of the sea and not the stars.
The Greeks made forms for the stars spattered against the deep.
They gave us Orion and Cygnus and the Serpent around the pole star.
The serpent has potential
I’ll bet Chinese make different groups.
I’ll bet every culture has to make groups.
The stars are a scary randomness. Not like the sea.
The sea is unchanging and always the sea.
Key West is like the stars and like the sea.
The waves pass through the dock pylons.
David Fekete 