Friday, March 6, 2009

justwrite 6 march

peculiar charm the alarm goes up from a field a-flame changing the game and its name with tame tigers floating upriver with delivery charges reversed living larger in unrehearsed sentences paid out played up ended with punctuation and the station keeps changing the commercials keep selling spelling words that don't make sense that aren't worth mentioning here because to be clear i'd have to use letters to litter them better than sound although in a roundabout way i'm waiting i'm stating misdirected missives the submissive forgiveness growing from that bigness your hotairballoon heart departing from a ground floor from a deplorable storage locker ticking tocker on the waterfront all along the watchtower the goodwill shirts toward men and the pants that dance in the aisles never saying yes never i do always i wonder always i wander and when the checks are cashed the trash overfloweth like an ill wind filling up and spilling onto the floor the story keeps chaptering and the verses don't rhyme but there's some time hesitant in the present lent by the future drifting into questioning but the lessening of options sets up the adoption of supposition in a drifting mission toward burma or a filmstrip stuck on the number two ready to move on but apparently not

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