The Little Words Mean the Most

This was us

 

No more now

without you barking reasonable orders

down grocery aisles

 

umm just a fool

without a queen

nor any great desire to feedly care look presume know

 

I ended when you upended

yet breath goes on

remainder is mine and

this so-called person left unpaired

only

can

maybe inspired enough

to roll our this maybe faith bin a bit further

a well-inflated tire

headed somewhere

 

accidental new word

 

 

aunthetic

 

you're not looking at this a special way

 

YOUR aunts

 

some sent you one way, some another

 

 

 

 

Thought I was finished

 

Turns out, I was just beginning.

And you?

 

Broken's good

 

Fly herding.

Thing?

Not at 12:49 PM this Saturday.

Nudged by John Haydon, starchy Buddhist

I hand-tried my second-best to sweep a

boing-boing confused fall fly

out around (yeah, almost!) past my office screen

 

instead dislodging Ashley's hanging by fishline

blown-glass Northern Cardinal trinket

which broke across my work desk like a junkyard of pointless adjectives

as I herded the fly to

no end I ever saw

tally: one blown-glass cardinal wing

now some feathers shorter than the other opposing

 

Broken's good, right?

 

Now cultivating

 

An attitude of gratitude

A majesty of irony

 

 

If you could make poems

 

from

discards

wastage

outtakes

the stuff that got in the way

 

 

pray prey

 

any idiot

can be a predator

no honor

sink in your claws, bigger, faster, unsuspected

FEAST without prep, without seasoning subtle reasoning

predators POUNCE FEED RIP DEVOUR ENJOY

predators = primitive + dumb + ruthless + delighted + sumptuously-fed

 

building nothing

not toasting 10 years from now

nor 5 years from now

nor last year ~ now? Portrait to consider:

disgraceful, satiated PREDATOR resting slob down atop a cleaned plate

with a grin

enough disdain to rise for breakfast, to do it all over again

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Being prey, though, that

takes courage and love and humility

and planning and a future

compassion even when you know death is IN your mailbox:

 

prey pray

plan and persevere

progress

R U ready to prey pray?

prey pray

times more than one despairing voice

times MORE than two despairing voices we know quite well

times a dozen despairing voices we know FAR too well

 

 

 

EVEN: As of Nov. 5, 2020, in America: doesn't really matter since no one reads this anyway (NOT a complaint, BTW)

 

proven: Your ARE your own brand

sometimes YOUR brand coincides with today or tomorrow or next year

& sometimes? who cares

a lot

forever

even the next 3 years

even months; hell, even minutes

grab your values tight: YOU

 

the earth just WENT FASTER!!!!

since last time we, friends, checked, CONFIDENT

even

love you all, one by one by one by one CONFIDENT

even ~ always up to you CONFIDENT

 

being CLEVER is for STUPID poeple

 

greetings, pasters

laura diane (your old house is collapsing) greg (your "masterpiece" is well-maintained) bob & offspring-ish

lostintime

 

it will be and you will be and i will have been: an adoring testament to you all

 

what happens when

you no longer have to worry about what it costs

can we afford it?

we'll see I guess

mostly we milk the irony

drop one in the bucket: thank you to so many who worried alongside

drop two in the bucket: will this heal anything?

having money at hand facing America's 2020 healthcare system?

couldn't hurt ~ or hurts less but even ready cash

has a border and an abyss nearby

 

Is there a poem to be scraped from Hadrian's Wall i've never walkedl?

 

know of it : saw the movie

each of us released beyond the wall

the mice run run free, wondering is

free a death-sentence

 

I heard a fly scrambling

released it out my office screen close call

unions are the close calls

of predators v. prey

any idiot can be a predator

no honor, sink in your claws and feast this once

being prey takes courage and love and humility