There you go again…Wading in against the throng of somnambulant crowds
hand-painting silver linings on photocopied clouds
tongue tip protruding like you’re thinking aloud
unmindful of the clues that escape from your notebook
swept away screaming from the mind’s barbed fishing-hook
and dumped in the corner far from your optimist outlook
Doodling in that notebook; telephone crooked shoulder to ear
Listening unhearing to your mother advise cajole and career
Pencil tip scratching out a chiaroscuro floral tear
You lick your lips to whistle an uplifting tune
Perhaps taking your medicine a little too soon
And find yourself breathing dust from the melancholy moon
Dues to be paid in pounds of flesh fresh
Penitent skin to be flayed with wire mesh
Homage to be made to the oracle of silence
Fees to be gathered to provide for the licence
Franchise me; feed me; fill me with fear
Take me to the forum where the experts leer
Through trick hoops aflame and beds a-nail
Smeared in amber grease and essence of snail
Battered and seasoned fried in extra virgin oil
From bent back questioning a poor man’s toil
Through fields fallow with sodden seeds sadly afloat
Across that cold and exclusive intellectual moat
That circles your heart with crocodile crying
Predatory reinforcements now the cavalry’s dying
the never dependable General Custer’s good looks
Have been cut from the pages of history’s books
So you take a deep breath of fetid green air
Arrange your floral hem and descend the glass stair
To the ballroom below where the carnivores wait
…to strip that silver lining from the edge of your plate.
1 comment:
Pencil tip scratching out a chiaroscuro floral tear.....
Perhaps taking your medicine a little too soon
And find yourself breathing dust from the melancholy moon....
To the ballroom below where the carnivores wait
…to strip that silver lining from the edge of your plate.
Ahhhhh Pisces........to have your muse.....(btw - if mine is hiding out over there, send her back please....it's time she gets to work!)
These are just a few of the lines I love (though every line has its sublimity to it..) For instance, chiaroscuro floral tear......ahh what a beautiful image; I could so relate to the second piece - meds and the melancholy moon dust (my life story lies- somewhere amongst those lines)
But the final stanza......YES......I love how you lead us down to it.......like I was actually floating down the spiral staircase, a princess........to greet the hoards....sublime.
impressive, as always
rdg
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