Thursday, 20 April 2023

#1206 - life gets shorter

 



1206

21.iv.23

4.111

life gets shorter

 

what’s real is what we remember

 

there will be less of a struggle ahead

 

the teeth for instance

nerves shrink

and the sense of smell

 

numbers keep track of me

 

one is always some way upside down

less to suffer

 

time is running out

or we could all be with it

 

shelves full of the dead

and a wardrobe too

 

they crowd my head

 

till join them

 

no one will know the utterly echoes

 

we’ll keep

 

voices below any threshold of hearing

 

in a dusty frame for a while

then vaulted

or perhaps to ground

 

with just little light

 

be wondered

 

Caesar, Alexander, bloke in a barrel

Cleo and Budica

 

‘who were they?’

no one might say

 

yet still just as much having been

 

I dreamt the sun was louder

laid out in blank pages like this

 

flat, now finished

gone to time

 

sleep is the last word

 


 





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