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The Slight Light of the Moon

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The Slight Light of the Moon
David J Walker

Everyone is in 
Everyone is done
Everyone 
under the sun 
is in the same boat

It’s a big boat
It’s a tugboat
It’s a lifeboat 
That won’t float  
On Solipsism’s alone 

It’s an 
Oceanliner the color of 
October with a canoe 
And an outboard motorboat 
Lost on an ocean stretching
As far across the Milky Way as
The naked eye … 

Oh say, can you see, anything 
Beyond vituperate inflictions 
Fired from the big guns 
From the map of a compendiums instructions

The first-rate illustrations are
Lost in Space and Time 
The Big Boat is mine
The small boat is fine 
But it’s yours

Everyone on the dreamboat
Will slowly float 
Into the slight light of
The moon

Copyright © | Year Posted 2022




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