The Liquidity of Lies
THE LIQUIDITY OF LIES
To be precise It is now exactly half past never
And see, I’ve been trying to tell you that for years
The last will always come first as second seeks solitude
When the best is bested by the worst
And the damage done is due dutifully to a pen you threw away and damnable difficulties
But then the stars start to startle you by speaking
And the moon tells them to keep it down
However all of them know the sun dons a crown
And weeping willows aren’t truly weeping
They’re just as startled by and concerned about the fifth of forever as I am
And what happens when the daffodils refuse to bloom
Now have another cup of sassafras gloom while trapped in a triangular shaped room
Where the angle meets the hypotenuse toe to toe
In a ring of fledgling fallacies
With last winter hiding in your closet
And don’t believe them
There is a monster under your bed
If only in your head
And the mercury will dip as low as it chooses with no limit set
Only the breath from the fifth of forever can get us to where we wish and want to be
But somehow melted puddles of yesterday move under our feet
So we’ll speed up the pace to a place of pleasantries and platitudes
But respite there has a bad reputation
and won’t exist until the fifth of forever
I’ve been trying to tell you these things with the hope you’ll heed what I needed to say today
Now above all remember that wherever you see a moth there is a hoard of locusts bound
May the rain be your shower and the sacrosanct sea your bath
As we are held hostage by Mother Nature’s wrath
I am prophesizing the fact that there will come a day when even a cork will sink
I’m telling you man, this ain’t nothing but a planet filled with people who should shut up, sit down and think
© 2011.…Phreepoetree ~free cee!~
Copyright © Jeffry Cohan | Year Posted 2011
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