#669 - advertisement

 

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advertisement

 

a left hand splash

and road go

where are we say a thing

 

this is an advertisement

for the failure of words

and their announcement

 

little windows where we sell the view

and you can buy a piece thereof

 

in the shop where the clock’s

been taken down

so no one will notice the time

 

we advertise the words themselves

 

map being its own territory

 

I fidget and forget

their absence

and ours from them

 

a song is singing itself

drowning out

flag flies over

a little salute

 

make mine magic

the failing

gung often ho

 

protects defends

beats sweeps, so on

 

every poem for itself

praise paean

commercial

 

it’s catchy

advertorial too

up an hour before I am

 

hair still all day sleeping

wild as the wind it is from

 

let me have a hymn’sworth

make a motzanext

in your dreams

 

should there be payment

for what can’t be helped?

 

and just as ants and birds tell rain

 

tune always comes from thin air

no one ever mentions the money

 

ask for attention by way of a poem

that’s the best way to hide