#1510 - DIY world

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DIY world

for godsbother

 

have you ever wondered

how it would be if

let’s just say for instance

you had to live in the house

you’d built with your own bare hands

by native wit, without advice

 

a gathering of fallen sticks

mouth of the cave

a bed of leaf

few words

your own invention

 

if it was like that with your car

not quite the Flintstones’ level

the horse you’d make out of coconut shells

but how would you make those rollers?

 

find your own dinner

invent your own fire

or steal

first you’d find the gods

 

imagine if you had to make your own sky

religion? DIY is blessed

 

the world of all its parts

just as you’d imagine

 

you’d make a system for love

and the food you’d invent

hung in the trees

beast felled

sorry

 

all my own sleep from scratch

 

we wake for the song of the birds

 

imagine if you had to make money yourself

 

if it were all up to you

 

the tree built by leaf

 

your own geography

far forests, capes and bights

 

like fashioning planet

from asteroid mush

 

and the words

these came into your head

 

each for an event

each a mirror of the day

 

one would always be a bit further along

one would be barely awake

 

I’d be with you there all the way along

but

you see

it just couldn’t be done