#504 - age of distraction

 

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age of distraction

or

what was I thinking?

 

… dusty old

when once the phone rang

                   … walk away

 

now, when’s the head not full?

and think it efficiency

but here’s another conversation

took us up, left off

 

back we go

checking and checking

never come to the end of a thought

 

your order is in

here’s the balance

get your tickets now

 

but smart to answer straight away

lest pile and list

it’s anyway under

 

if you like this then

 

the garden on the lectern

and vanish old-fashioned

into a book

 

or blind in the night

see all

 

it’s the plastic age

time of coalsmoke

they’ll see this in the story of stone

think flaked and chipped our way to this

 

mind is printed over the world

 

but if you could see without the eye-well

in words of for instance alone, just see …

unveil the on-its-own

like some bronze Martian thought up ages past

 

would it be like giving day away now?

 

yes doubtless a form of addiction

always suspecting you’ve lost it

 

kookaburra laughter

was never that

 

what was it I meant to say?