10 january

trust rusts after three washings of the wrong stuff and it's tough to touch up -- know how that goes and you'll have a clean bill, an easy will and a way (stay the executioner! pay off debts with borrowed fur!) -- there are bridges to be crossed, there are tempests to be tossed, but also there are salads -- and those are better eating than some thousand insecurities greeting eyes-closed wonder-whys (let's all hope and wish surprise is always on our better sides) -- there are plenty of things to say but even as the dark today comes faster in the rain parade, i'll make no excuses, no angsty ways of calling out (let's all twist, let's scream and shout!) - let me tell you all i'll say in hectic frenzy and wildeyed play : now there's no time left to wave hello until the clock blows by (an easy surprise with no watch worn, an untucked shirt and a hairgrowing storm : wait until the ice catches up! soon the digits will drop below and the calling out will hardly know (bury insecurities deep in black ink cups of tea -- smile bright at you, at me -- a mirror by another sense with no way to rephrase what i've wondered since) : even as the odder gets, even as the hopeful bets are placed, lace up shoes and crew the rowing storm - norm the masts and net the casts -- enemies of the face-first stand-ups (fall we do and call we will)