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When you sort decades of electric cables from that box hidden away It reminds of disentangling neurons haphazardly fired at random It’s a beautiful day and you’re in it among sea saw and hammer Hundreds of screws in the tool box and all you want is a single unbent nail Somewhere hidden under plucky wall plugs and skewed rusty hinges If life gives you lemons a power drill defeats convention Nuts bananas and bolts mislaid in the fridge with washers and powder Reveal the essence of an organized mind squished in the blender Bedlam chaos fragmentation or glorious harmony Synapses jumping like fleas on the mindful grey patched neuronal carpet Heavily worn by August the Clown because a well led life is a circus Knowledge pushed into action potentially in a meaningful way Buttons in the haberdashery basket cased in creativity’s mad insanity Knotted threads from life-long preservation of patchwork and passion Enmeshed a few screws yet again and a bubble gum wrapper And that hammer once more testing reflexes deflected patella and callus A pendulum for more esoteric days and a Tarot card next to the cross Saved for a rainy day of prayer and the coronation of dreams After decade long quest a screw is still a screw whether loosened or nailed The sander of unfinished living grinds on to an egg timer’s analogue fashion And who an earth would prefer finding a rivet to crafting a poem One possible morale of the story is that hardware plies softly myriads of magic That in the wider scheme of things there are enough contraptions in the case And once they start giggling and straying Pandora is happy 17th April 2019
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