Sunday, October 7, 2018

When You’re Sitting Alone


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When you’re sitting alone like a poor little elf
it seems everything falls off the shelf of yourself.
But falls isn’t the verb. What you’ll have viewed
by the end of it will have arrived in a curlicued
.
rush: disguised as elaborate ribbons and spatters
of colorful paint-drops, they really are matters
of dry circumspect little naggings of thought
that seek form in this way to allay any fraught
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misconception you’ll sometimes have had
that there’s nothing of import inside you: a sad
probing finger that often will poke at the bruise
in your heart – that you’re feet without shoes,
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incomplete, like the news you’ve been promised
but never receive. Mental weather’s admonished
you often before that you’ve got something going.
But what? All this folderol flowing and showing
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itself all the time! To what end? You’ll sit alone
for a small while more. Wait for your iPhone
to ring-aling-ding. That would be reason for cheer.
But wait, there’s no wait. Everything’s already here.
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