# 802 - best of all possible worlds

 

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802

3.75

best of all possible worlds

for the planets

 

only world

is best possible

anyone sees that

anyone can tell

 

energy is pure delight

 

others have clouds and sunset breezes

who notices any of that?

 

will we go up there?

should we get away?

 

where else shirts and trousers

ties and skirts?

who’ll wink?

 

light is everywhere

but flirting?   

may I bring in the bees?        

 

who else will plausibly deny?

 

a solo here – guitar or drums

 

where else the flowers?

where else the trees?

where else what we call air?

 

one thought drifts ever aimlessly

some tangle here to speculate

 

how fine the spider

smooth the snake

where else the splendid weed?

 

dig

and we live a long way down

 

stand an unfold

here where we have to believe

 

other surfaces like carpets, maps

ask though who else has made one (?)

 

it’s our eye – heart – head calls this in

 

where else the snout to truffle?

how otherwise on wings?

 

go up as pale as far beyond

leave beanstalks far behind

 

is there anywhere else to remember?

or where you’d rather be?

 

too hot, too cold, too fast, too slow

 

elsewhere the epic struggle in stone

has gone long unrecounted

 

is there some Titan breathes in the bright black void?

the answer is no one knows

 

centre is best out of the way

at an edge

where we minnow and preen

 

I call precious

best of all

 

it’s where we were and will and are

it’s where we have to be

 

some call it heaven

some think it’s hell

truth is – and go on – and seek it elsewhere

 

onion like this

and till tomato

nothing like this on anyone’s moon

 

no word for this frail legacy

where else the wishing well?