#983 - notes in case of a mirror

 

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notes in case of a mirror

sub specie aeternitas

for ghost writing

 

please understand the differences

times of day make

and how you cast accordingly

 

there’s where you’re from just now

must remember who summoned you here

 

just yesterday we laughed

and teased a line out there, and there

something like counting birthdays…

please don’t

 

but ask your doctor … you’ll be told

it’s nothing to do with the way you look

 

music for light in there

 

it’s how the lay of the land presents

 

all that gossip, unsought advice

it is a certainly social moment

to gather by the well, peer in

and careful not to splash

 

but follow the ripples till still

stick to just the face, its monuments

the passions, quiet thought

 

most crimes are historic, unpunished

committed as a matter of course

 

think of it as fleshscape

be the warming ocean

certain levels rise

surface area increases

 

even and despite all this

it’s you have appeared again –

magic! none other

still it’s always a surprise

 

go on – have a stretch, lie down

kiss the tiles

no one will see you then

or rise up singing

a dance left yet

 

every day this miracle has the same name

a test of forbearance, a setting of tone

how will you choose to take things?

 

many will kick the can down the street

and more to be pitied than blamed

 

it’s all about maintaining a garden

some would say empire

doling out honours

trim, tidy

 

go deep

hypnotize someone

you never know whom you’ll meet

 

declare a general amnesty

moments before

we square the circle

we round on our prey

 

but a tribe of the gone imagines us  

 

and that cheeky boy

black rag on the head

please pay him no mind

 

there will always be a ladder out

 

and still this place is ill advised

 

it is of course only in case of emergencies

one ever looks in

 

it’s only you

this is only light reflected

and you’re already there

 

perhaps a candle now?