#1036 - jockeying for position

 

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jockeying for position

a prepositional ode to perpetual motion

 

I am always getting beyond myself

getting ahead, getting on

getting away with

whatever I can

now and then getting off

 

jollies!  all sorts!

‘get down and get with it’

was a thing once

 

nowadays one ‘goes with…’

(no questions asked)

 

but maybe I’m getting ahead of myself?

 

there are those who have

time to time

found me out of reach

remote

and it’s true

just once in a while one might go off on a tangent

 

off with the bunnies

down the hutch

round around the garden                            

 

just one false step

sometimes go under

 

personally, always plumbing the depths

two steps on, one back

nabbed flagrante now and then

 

at the top

or sometimes off my game

other times, just off

 

I am tripping myself up

head over heels too

over the moon

(you know how it is)

 

I am bringing up the rear

 

often find myself behind the eight ball

fall under my own wheels, say juggernaut

fall on my sword as well

 

I never get over myself

I drive myself up the wall

round the bend

off my tits at times

 

I am boiling over

horns glow

smoke pours from my ears

 

you might say neither here nor there

but on the way

over maybe a rainbow

anything come to me in a dream

 

sometimes wake with these observations

 

overwhelm myself with just here I am

and so soon slip

but quickly pick up, dust off

 

I, the undersigned, am renewing my subscription

 

you might say this is life

good as gone

 

the old tricks are up to me

pick up where I was left

 

sometimes even I have to wonder

where it is I get off