名人诗歌|Welcome to Pleasant Bluff

Welcome to Pleasant Bluff¹

Caki Wilkinson

It's not unpleasant here. The chicken plants

and car plants grow like plants. Here, all the sames

are different, though a hell|bent countenance（支持，同意）

persists in yards still plugging past elections

and latticed propane（丙烷） tanks. Here, names mean business; football games

mean war. Here, kids attend Dead President

Primary, right off Bigwig Avenue,

and strip malls flank the Holy Testament

; the new Corrections

Department borders Three Sons Barbeque

. Here, downtown is disguised:

the old PO a bank. The gallery

that used to be a mill, now capitalized

The Mill, sells space and photographs of mills.

Here, progress means, ostensibly（表面上）, a stage

of reclamation^{2（开垦，收回）, from TOPography（地势）}

to TOPonymy（地名学）. But since the genius lies

in places, not in names, here, once you're there,

you'll lack an actual to actualize,

finding no oaks in Oakmont Cemetery

and only shops in Walnut^{3 Square, no hills}

in Eden Hills, no Eden || anywhere.