justwrite 14 february internot delayed

white noise cloys on the tongue strums along the unsung hero's zeros and ones columns the challengers and the colanders strung along the catalog pages sketching for ages back from the pasture collapsing against the gates the dinner plate fantasies footloose and cheap fancies not free too easy to be consoled the rolls we're cajoled by are better with butter baked up in muffin tins by mothers who will never be seen again who will not scan the file who will not live in denial a trial by pancakes by firecracker mistakes worth letting go of getting a good throw of that weight you've got to carry that state you've got to ferry across the collapsing political borders hoarding all the orange ink rethinking the benefits of earthy red instead to have and to be fed asparagus the soup we wandered past casting a green dripping shadow