All in today.
I saved a spider
from the Pre-K
classroom.
I set it free...
I served kids
cupcakes
the size of a double
fist, or two hearts.
I laid on my back
and listened to the bees,
sweetly buzzing soft
and collecting pollen
patiently.
I consider a cardinal
through the branches
above me.
I walked twenty feet
to another tree.
I analyzed the work
and movement
of another cardinal.
I held the slender trunk
to feel the heartbeat
for less than a minute.
Then I moved down
the grass.
I don't run near
the throughway
because it sounds
like the world
is screaming and bleeding.
It drowns out the birds.
Don't Walk blinks RED screaming; Staying Alive,
Life Ark two by two -- save/spend and start/end,
Better Safe Then Sorry -- Don't Drink and Drive,
Catch phrase that forewarn--protect and defend.
Seas calmness...falsely trains expert yachtsmen,
Stop and look both ways ere crossing the street,
Phrase tell us Why's/Wherefores at time tighten,
Calm ere the storm, wind turns, reverse at peak.
Lost/found, bad/good, hell/heaven, Satan/Christ,
End of the line -- Ground leastwise best, Sinners,
Broad spreads throughway to wickedness-Curses,
Throughfares the ways to righteousness-Winners,
Walk the tightrope-smart naught e'er run the talk,
Forethought count and define most tightrope walk.
Park your delusion and drive your alter-ego
On the throughway to your minds highway.
Where function and dysfunction blend effortlessly
Without evidence of a contrasting memory.
Where comfort is meaningless
And discomfort the norm
Sending reality back
To its obsolete form.
Searching for affirmation
With a lack of information
In this current desolation
Without hope for maturation.
Where rationality
Is not a possibility
While living in a state of self-pity
Ignoring one’s ultimate mortality.
Unable to accept the reality of age
Because time cannot assuage
The questioning of one’s inner sage
While waiting for someone to turn the page.
Doomed to do the same again and again
Without a possibility to mend
The relationships with a friend
Until one’s ultimate end.
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