justwrite 30 january

If you’re reading this then perhaps an apology is in order for the disorder of a sort shuffled all around this table this deck unstable and insoluble at a highly voluble pitch strikes out and the message is doubtfully received easily deceived we cast our lots and forget the candidates the choices the breakfast rejoices in its own completeness and the season changes again shuffled through and a bridge up as all the cards arch high and wide intense surprise as they land in hands headed back to a pocket locked it all up there right for the night and the tight-fisted twist to your purse strings puts you in a bind confines your mind to rewinding and finding coins under seat cushins misspelling pillows and willowing the wisp the crispy feel of baked paper sopping from the flood and starched up by registered heat the slats the slots the paint the pots and we go merrily along the song I’d like to sing is different maybe better mostly other and if this is from a movie check yes and if you also know the title press two please hold while I try that extension it’s a stretch but that’s what’s meant and why not it’s pretty hot to jump those linguistic leaps in the sunshine but in the shade it’s just fine got it made lemonade on order over easy and should it please me and the court the show goes on and the strong survive and the rest marvel the carnival in town drowns out all the homework and the jerky pencil sketch by the sidewalk dwelling wretch captures the quirk of that face just right replaces what isn’t with something that might have been and it’s a spinning feeling to see what can’t have been but still might be it’s a tree that grows in the water with its head in the sky it’s a chair that waits for its table and we’re falling still but the sky grows closer the smell the supposed static that really makes a picture it’s a screen to keep between the blackwhite and obscene confusion but if you press your eyes to the glass the class that’s in session will teach you any lesson you’d like to learn hard to earn interest on a prospect like that but it’s all in the language and I’m happy to invest