justwrite 1 september

There are things to remember and lists to make to mistake to stake claims in and to turn down steaks we see those snakes we raise them diamonds and also club our hopes we string those ropes along until they reach the end we extend our service it makes others nervous but we are the hangers of flags and the wearers of sandals we can handle the truth forsooth not forsaken the bonds aren’t quite breaking but they’re stretched we catch ourselves looking in the mirror and hearing our mouths say home for places we’ve roamed to recently the previously unknown the categories of shiny chrome and other such flash we’re dashing our own ideas we’re flying higher than libraries and carrying breezes in our vest pockets and to lock it all up needs a sort of key the kind that we can only imagine the personal tragedy that creates art from mediocrity I mean this as hyperbole or metaphor or scores of other elements devices the spice is there but the meat is missing and I’m kissing the vegetables in grateful appreciation the fascination with neatness is fine but if it all counts and the spelling amounts to nothing then it’s a rush in to the winter and a cold splinter stuck right in the north and the south mouths off about it but what’s the rest and the west to do when for us it’s truly inconsequential what happens with some dental damage in a vacant dream the kind where streams of teeth just fall right out this means that doubt and lack of control are controlling your thoughts just when you’d bought the right toothpaste it’s time to face that it’s all in your head and I don’t mean your teeth it’s fakereal disease but if you’ll look you’ll see that they’re all quite in place right stuck into your face