“SCHOOLHOUSE came around, and it is autochthonous, indigenous, and in full, the true variety, the authentic ontophany, where one learns words, and about the Sea, and it figures actually, to name all words and all words for, the parts of that nature that they came for, that was the point,

Of Underworld (1997)

The Don DeLillo 9/11 cover art

Was compelling to do

The entire read through

What does Underworld mean to,

That person who

Writes long books

That are not bad

From the art show in Arizona

Of war machines

With graffiti on them

To other scenes

Of underworld, USA

Like a Bronx TV

Of every Mystery

Of the Urban Blight

The endless electric twilight

The pool halls

And the corrections too

Where one learns words

From Jesuits through

Their methods in

Such kinds of education

That find their way in

Like to a child’s corrections

Facility

A three-year course

Of basketball and word study

A proper education or not at all

What is the underword

Of words in full

What are the forms of this books

In the Underworld by the way

How many forms

Of life do they

Recognize on their TV,

It was a nice Arizona story

&c.