post 24 february

justwrite 24 february

as a date that’s due will this one come true or would that be too easy do you borrow or do you lend do you pretend they’re the same and name them both with the same letters in the same order of the same word having heard all the options and choosing no others we are encouraged by our mothers and we wonder how we happen to be and whether the sea is really so wide whether the tide takes turns in earning its keep in the deep or is it always on the beach is it that layer of warmer storms washed from the tropics ready to drop its treasure into a weather vane waning with the moon and waxing a new spoon trying to keep it shiny trying to work its shiny ways forward we are worried about the progress but it is not only ours to make we are cake and we are bake we are the end and the doing the effect with its cause freed of clauses and stuck in the closet in anticipation of a uniting nation pulled apart the start of a dill and a pickle and a trickle of spices or should I say greens and when in between the courses the human events do we pay our own rent and do we send tents skyward packing tracking in all the mud of the ground around and downtown and besides there are lots of shoes to buy


justwrite 23 february

one minute I was standing up and the next I was sitting down I was listening to the music and then it was gone then it was quiet then the riot of noise outside calmed down the storm back to the norm and more or less everyone was snug as a bug in a classroom which is not to say that there are bugs in classrooms and I very much hope there aren’t which reminds me of the times with the old orange carped right from the sixties and smack on the floor of Walkersville high school my school but no more and when they tore up the mess they replaced what was left with white linoleum the sole color and a few others in blue and gold squares for school colors there are numbers in this story but I don’t remember them what year or how clear the directions were I’ll just say to myself and the health of this handwriting is quite in doubt