#84 - lentwork

24.3.20

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lentwork

the dam, the tank, the larder’s full

what if we’ve empty coffers?

     – ‘The Gingerbread House’,

         at Markwell via Bulahdelah

now the hard moment!

plenty to read, eat, listen to, say

plenty of paint and plenty of canvas

plenty of people to see, to hear

plenty of time to think, plan, doubt

plenty of paper and plenty of pens

plenty of screen time too

plenty of paths to clear

plenty of fear

plenty of garden and plenty to do

fix all the things no longer working

make some decisions what to chuck out

mend your ways, sinners

and think up new sins

it’s hard to remember what to give up

let’s try to think what it was

smoking’s a long time ago

there’s the grog

might hang on to it for a bit

sugar!

check in with everyone

you have the telling bone

tell jokes!

(best, cheapest medicine)

Knock! Knock!

Fuck off!

(that was the punchline)

Opportunity, Motive and Means

walk into a pub

(back in the day, that was)

Verbosity! – the workless

is/are your new victim/s

Pedantry! – the hour is nigh

we have the time for it

and Revelation! Rapture!

seflies are so yesterday

unless they’re just with yourself

plenty of comfortable chairs

let’s sit

watch the rain fall

scope out the sun

see all the green world rise

plenty of time to go slow

little to regret right now

or that you can do anything about

it’s actually harder to make mistakes

could be time for the long hard look

get to know yourself better

listen  out on the street

can you hear that?

it’s the sound of an essential service –

means the state loves us after all