#1250 - nowhere

 

1250

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nowhere

Dombóvár set

 

I like to be nowhere

in a country

 

that’s as far in as you can be

 

I like to be nowhere at all

and it’s where I’m from

by the way

 

there are little things to note in such places

 

field and breeze

the lean of the trees

 

to be there you have to be nobody too

 

even so, seem outlandish to them

speak a funny way

 

people nowhere just wouldn’t know

but you recognize the type

 

I don’t know them

they don’t know me

 

it’s comfortable to be nobody too

as long as the essentials are laid on

 

you had to have had some kind of road

and running water’s good

 

but we don’t need to get to know each other

 

owe nothing

no one has a debt to pay

 

of course there’s a fierceness

 

all this built and deliberately too

there’s often a bedrock of belief

 

we could be hounded out of town with pitchforks

could be installed as kings and queens

 

but for that you’d have to be somewhere

 

nowhere is better by far

 

meadows and the summer shade

mosquitoes known by name

 

it’s better to leave no tracks at all

 

to be small in a small place

no one remembers

 

that’s as good as gone