Random Rules

The Scene

Thank you for the compliment. I will assume

it is partly sincere. And soon, when I compliment

your work, I will try hard to be sincere.

Thus our relations will be cordial - thus we may be grateful

for the social scene that prompts from us these compliments.

But what I want - 

ten or eleven years from now

you stand at a window, early on a winter morning;

it is a week or a month after the death of

someone you knew well; you gaze out upon the chill stiff scene

of trees and stone walls, gray and black and gray...

admire my work then. Love it then.

[Mark Halliday]