Ramael Ashta Poet Free verse

Stumbling

never really liked the way I stumble
	
		stumble, stumble
	stumble and stumble
	
	where’s the song we used to stumble over the words
	because at least i could enjoy the jumping and stumbling
	of the tape
	it was a red van, not a white one
	so we always knew it was him who was giving the good
	kind of candy, and not type that makes you fall asleep
	you know what i’m talking about

		so now i’m stumbling over words
		stumbling over people
		i didn’t know there was a dead squirrel on the stairs
		why is there a dead squirrel on the stairs??
		now i’m stumbled and stumped

			thinking about that red van
			who’s driving it now
			does the tape still jump
			or maybe it’s jumping back to the same place now that he’s gone
			it never jumped like that when we met him for the first time

			i guess all of the cassettes had to stumble for a while
			now he’s got the unstumbled cassettes of all our little adventures
			nothing missing, nothing broken
			live on channel 37

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