#1066 - adjusting the kit calendar

 

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adjusting the kit calendar

for days lost because I cannot count

 

it’s not that any one day was vanished

but in the manner of the ancients

when they forgot a moon

because the suns are simply too much

like not knowing head from the tail of the poem

 

it’s not that any one day was missed

but the numbers just aren’t right

leaving us with days of volcanic dark

that  would amount to a week’s holiday

somewhere for someone

not naming names

 

once they had a whole year off like this

everyone starved

 

of course I could have skipped the adjustment

simply gone off into my own season

 

imagine the unscheduled poem

spontaneous human combustion, all that

no dateline, no ribbon

 

still time to set things to rights

 

plenty up my sleeve

plenty still in the tank