ALMOST - A STRUGGLE TO EXPLAIN

almost an artist
but destroyed
by the tv headache

by the ennui

& 

the time machines demands

of multitudes legion

almost wise

& bursting with an exposition
of 

the pain the clouds the life . . .

well thats not quite right


~

insight explanations 

almost
almost
on the tip of my coffee burnt tongue

but this almost 

this thing 

almost a sensation

& not quite a gut 

never more than 
almost almost Something

my own interior tease

~

conclude

it

is -

a beautiful love child 

of delusion & aged decay

that

i 

will

express with just 

a simple sweep 

of one hand

my sleepy eyes

holding the rest 

in mysterious check

why not why not why not

The Thinker by Rodin

Image: © Dreamstime

I AM NOT CERVANTES

am 
i
a
sancho panza ?

  maybe herding
  maybe following
  the 
earths quixotic delusion
     waiting
     on
     some
     concrete gift
i will
never 
understand


or 
am 
i
a
saddled rocinante ? 

  lost in my own
  small
  windmill
  war

  from www.travellingboy.com

PROLE BASE LINE

their compliance 
and
news accelerated delusion
adds weight 
to
the 
fat
boot
stomping with 1% reason
on
the
quiet unkillable
salt 
of
the
fenced and fracked
landfill
earth

 

MOVIE SCENES

its like a movie

scene - restaurant/chilled water/us together

   (a waiter barely table height

   drops profiteroles-to-share)

   she walks to the toilet/disappearing

   THEN

   my mauled soul yells me a wide fib

it says; you made her up/you here alone

scene - fussy mother waitress looking at me

   all care and cow eyes

   the

   jet-world rattle of restaurant

   rises

   to

   a hitchcock crescendo 

again it says; PROVE youre not alone

suspense movie now - the mad final reel

cold sweat pricks its tickle fingers round my hairline

scene - i’m staring at her coat on the chair back

        wondering/asking/pleading

   did i put it there?

scene - she walks back to me

   i say PINCH ME!

   she pinches me

        laughing

   at

   my

   suspicious

   eyes

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