#1348 - from scratch

 

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from scratch

 

every day the world must be learned

from scratch of sun

when all stars fail

 

light tricks us from a sudden tune

 

nakedness too

which part to protect?

 

there’s head in orbit

and how to turn

 

all of it from scratch

 

it’s to be someone else

to go on

 

no wonder then we wish back

and in among fine print for a cover

 

the dream of the toilet barge in

righteous indignation

 

the dream of the painting demonstration and theft

a corporate ploy to cheat

the lost thongs

this is London

the theatre tickets too

 

a great victory in the senate

and they stand on their desks to cheer

 

but I’m the only one there to see

how so much politics is missed

and the one who’s in gaol for child abuse

nevertheless elected

he snubs me

 

I’m embraced by strangers

remember hard but can’t

who go on to the business

of day to be learned

 

how to dress, how to speak

the very words and what we mean

 

every waking as from nothing

from nowhere

then who am I?

 

because a day – no day – can be known

but we must make it ours

 

from scratch of sun

when all stars fail

 

heads are cloth

and find a hole

a thread

poke through

and tug

 

there’s how to catch the arrow

you have only teeth

until meals

a hunger grows

 

all of this seems so everyday

 

soon the beer will begin

 

and what do the flowers say to the sun?

what do they say to the rain?

 

how quickly great triumphs forget us

 

as if at the counter

fronting up to ask

in a language we are yet to decide

 

how much for this day?

for that? for another?

 

even once upon a time

has to be learned

 

and that’s especially perhaps

 

we must learn

how it is to argue the toss