#240 - I figured time

 

29.viii.20

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I figured time

 

because I wouldn’t play by the rules

rather with them

 

figured time

in an elsewhere cup

and held it to these lips

 

a garden

trailing off among

and called it to me

once

twice

gone

 

forget the tune

figured it would pass

 

carved over the lintel

found filigree

blissed afternoon

a tea cup pinky lawned

to serve

 

cast question over all the world

and I was asked as well

 

like a ripeness catching

static

 

signed up for the truth

 

machete kiss

crept to a gospel

 

here voices broke

a forest grew

 

who kept the count?

no matter

 

it wearies the not-a-soul to be said

but have some up the sleeve

 

go to it breathlessly

often as not unhorsed

 

with the rabbit from the hat

or hanky

 

picture time – cliff’s beach

 

call curse on

heads you come in spinner

 

if only spent wisely

but tricked down a hole

 

ever chased tail like this?

companion to the echo’s cheer

 

are we blessed with ?

 

deep in sorrows thereof

 

not a word

but won’t obey

 

this too will pass

say all of us

 

it is  a kind of retribution

which nobody can deny

having wished it all away

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

after a few glasses

 

wasn’t the shedbrary

bus run into

but beside

and surely damage

though I never heard the crash

bus, like a little to-the-mill job

and they pile out guiltily

trying to reverse

hoping unnoticed

but what did they bash?

that’s what they did

 

or the else other

you can hang onto

first for mere

eyes shut and see them on

 

ghost stairs

the building as it was

must rather have been

 

back in the day

the old entrance

side of

and they’re grey with funny hats

gone dull about their business

certainly shorter

 

how little of amazement attends

 

it’s a long time there

lack of local information

 

can you be sure you’ve really seen?

 

tomato bounce off on a chessboard

 

home for us all

snuck out in the corridor

aching time

as by rights

 

it’s all night sounding

nose from the inside considered

one line can’t be made out

 

nurse says because there are mad’ns in there

but does she really speak?

 

no one will call them ping pong balls

how can it be done without cues?