justwrite 27 july

definitely an alibi would buy you some time but the dime you're spinning on is no sit-upon it's just change gone wrong meaning for the worse like a hearse outside when you wake up with fried egg on your face trying to erase those mistakes with a frying pan but that's a candyland defense running off from the fence from the trench full of unmentionable unbearable parables the walrus eating the carpenter and the ivory furs provoking all of hoboken to climb on board with animal rights and human lefts the palette cleft with only one primary color left in hand painting everything yellow all those dangerous hellos and goodbyes the disguised trials wrapped up in aluminium foiling and ready to boil all the king's men a bubbly bath a mythological wrath called down from the hardbacks where the cardsharks sit up straight and contemplate the changing scene before them with not a friend behind them and not a key to wind them as they slow down as their frowns slump and dump plastic eggs into the grass jingling with store-bought beans of the jelly variety a demo of piety of some sort as fertility symbols mingle with chocolate and the sun comes up like a bonnet on parade