Walking Backwards
People always walk their pet Time
in linear leash fashion
But their four dimension-legged friend
don’t always lead them
the right bipedal way
When you take a trip down Memory Dove Lane,
do you often mourn
over your past mistakes?
Or do you walk the Time backwards,
going back the same way ...
do you still revel in the foolishness
that you did back in the day?
Drunk time spent pissing on the fire hydrant,
hangover time chasing party time up a tree
High-flying old parrots with nothing but free time,
now trying to re-live their caged youth —
Loco pet Coco, just how cuckoo can you be
Always looking forward
to the next backward birthday,
fondly cabaret clutching your pet Time:
Dog be chasing cat ...
cat be chasing rat ...
Rat be chasing the cheese ...
cheese be set in the trap ...
Swiss cheese memory —
holes in the head of a turned around,
backwards looking cap
Like a blind mice of senility crawling infant-ly
into a death trap that be ready to snap,
at the tale end of it all
Copyright © Freddie Robinson Jr. | Year Posted 2018
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