Bon Voyage

FINITUDE

[fin d’etudes]

Libretto

The Chambers

i

at the Void’s edge

the Visitor kept score

for M ’nd R, tossin horseshoes

into the abyss, clang

in a four round contest

neither winners nor

loser, on ’n’ on they throw

Taught to count,

the names of things

we gathered tonight

by the bonfire light

to sing ’n’ shout, cause

a clamor, banging pots

& pans, in the fog BON

VOYAGE as the cruise ship

churns upriver to the sea