A lousy late-to-school child
Big faults sees and makes mild:
In future turns late worker,
A scheduled-time rule breaker,
Later late-to-act husband
You stir with a struck band
To secure quicker favor
For his wife in hell labour...
A late-to-pay fees father,
As his child's fresh debts gather;
Tomorrow's late unionist
Since a meeting is no tryst...
A late-to-alert-the-cops
When a folk to doom hops,
The guy's suicide neck in rope
For having lost basic hope.
Penumbric Fringe
David J Walker
The lateness of the hour
Measured in the meter of the
News-mans message
The Hour is Late
But not come
Cries the downtown crier
The lateness of the hour
With unrealized power
From the sun
But then
They will be they
Won’t they
They are the one-word
Future
The lateness of the hour
Is Time
And time again
Repeated in
Ambit chaos
Within the penumbric fringe
Find fine excuses for your lateness;
That way you will protect your Greatness:
A Street fight that just ended a life,
A man The beating out of wife,
A purge that vowed to keep you at home,
A drug you took, everything A Dome …
A soiling of your wear by a car,
Your offer to trace some kid afar;
A patient guide to A Drunk who slobbers,
A surfacing of Long-Starving robbers …
They are all Excuses for Lateness
From A-Z, Lies of Finesse.
So why am I always late? Well, I’ll tell you straight
I bought this watch from Tesco (yes, I know it’s not the best co)
But I’ve been short recently, things to do, people to see
Food to get and bills to pay, a final demand from the C.S.A.
Honestly, I’m a rabbit, if I see a tail I’m going to have it
A hundred sons and daughters more, irate fathers at my door
Try providing for extended family, it can’t be done, you’ll soon see
Worries about the price of hay, carrots cost more every day
I get up before it’s light, find fresh grass, have a bite
Then busy snoozing through the day until the sun flies away
Out again as light fails, more eating and all it entails
Digging a burrow for another brood (a pretty chick whom I wooed)
My life an endless round of juggling, pleasing and struggling
Keeping every wife sweet, no wonder I’m always beat
And as for lateness, isn’t it a sign of greatness?
Anyway I’m wanted I have to go, someone’s calling down below
There really aren’t enough hours in the day...
In the wee hours,
When the wish hours of sleep flowers,
To computer games still sticking
And one’s satisfied lips licking;
A still irrepressible interest in understanding a movie
Or memorizing the lyrics of an American groovy
To the end follow a longish Italian Mafia
Or faithfully sum up the untouchable truths of Radio Biafra:
A normal persons destined inability to short- change Nature,
Retaliatory sleep’s readiness to bed-chain the Cheating Creature,
Until the long and short hands of the clock have described 800AM
Or over bounded to a a farther –flung AM!
Some kids to their schools surface late,
Because of a morning overcrowded with chores
And an instruction, very stiff, very straight
To further complete the cleaning of mummy’s stores:
Sometimes, a school child’s dramatic remembrance of an orange tree
And his wanting to first fill his satchel with what is luckily free.
Lateness to school
Not to be always pushed to a fool.
In the wee hours,
When the wish hours of sleep flowers,
To computer games still sticking
And one’s satisfied lips licking;
A still irrepressible interest in understanding a movie
Or memorizing the lyrics of an American groovy
To the end follow a longish Italian Mafia
Or faithfully sum up the untouchable truths of Radio Biafra:
A normal persons destined inability to short- change Nature,
Retaliatory sleep’s readiness to bed-chain the Cheating Creature,
Until the long and short hands of the clock have described 800AM
Or over bounded to a a farther –flung AM!
Some kids to their schools surface late,
Because of a morning overcrowded with chores
And an instruction, very stiff, very straight
To further complete the cleaning of mummy’s stores:
Sometimes, a school child’s dramatic remembrance of an orange tree
And his wanting to first fill his satchel with what is luckily free.
Lateness to school
Not to be always pushed to a fool.
lateness is so sad
chock full of excuses, it reeks
makes me want to drink
11-13-2020
Written displacement
Oriented
Figures focus
Loose stance
Bile manufactures
Masculine
Angelic
Body
Doubles
Stretch new skin
Over the
Wise
Spicy neglect
You neglected
Your mind's
Obese child
Write letters
To dead
Virgins
It'll take your heart
Off trivia
Slice most glances
(If you read) Do not compare
Lateness to sickness