#1327 - everyone’s trying to get into a poem

 

1327

20.viii.23

4.233

everyone’s trying to get into a poem

 

 

it might be just to ask a question

might just be so as to be lost

 

there’s only so much room

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sometimes read a first line ten times

and still no one’s at home

 

is it leap onto a moving carriage?

could be the step is just too high

 

there’s looking for far vistas

when the poem is a door

 

nevertheless and even so

everyone wants into the poem

 

for some it’s that something was left there

has to be retrieved

 

heirloom or tip of the tongue

you name it if you can

 

the little world is a gaol

into which they are trying to break

 

some have used own cannon for this

many must improvise

 

it’s a rescue mission

get in, get out quick, hold nose

 

something has died in there

or it could be our ancestors’ underwear

 

correctly identified as a curse

perhaps more like a prayer in reverse

 

as if there were some kind of heaven

wishing we were

 

how few in fact will think

but this is where we are

 

I looked for the socks I was wearing

and they were on my feet