Fifths
1/ it was a far cry
not being mean
A quick search and
it’s astonishing
A fictional portrait: we are all preoccupied.
The ritual: follow this grain.
ever-this
ever-this
ever-that.
2/
we paddle out
bobbing
In the background: time-shifts
Lift this flap:_______________________ and this: ____________
and this : ______________
Denote this as: background.
A quick search shows: a tangled truth
3/ a revolution:
we try
(we never try)
*
But — I tried
(I did)
I couldn’t be mean — (ever)
The ever-line blurs; bleeds; re-seeds.
In a true-to-life portrait: I’d be a saint
4/ there’s the rub
oh, the irony.
Denote this to: empty
low
any number of “NO’S!!!”
5/ no
when you said “no” to :
what didn’t even have time to happen
time-shifting time
to the background
to the ever-lineated
From a child’s view: you let go.
All that bobbing / all that paddling
*
The days are tangled in me now
I am the ever-present.
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