Apr 5
HOW TO MAKE THE RIGHT DECISION AT THE RIGHT TIME
the clock shaves off
another bit of time
tick by tick by tick
it doesn't give a tock
a patina of time
covers the dusty ornaments
the eaves drip
Nature's clock
I measure time
by how long it takes
the cuckoo's voice
to travel
from the background
to the foreground of this
storm tossed morning
I feel myself as if I am
the personal measurement
of boredom
a fly lands
on a bishop's mitre
washes its hands
assiduously
then buzzes off
in case it catches religion
the chess pieces
resume
their silences
I feel like a female mammoth
frozen
in a block of ice
Time refuses
to move on
sti...sti...ICKS
my husband
plays chess
with himself
can never tell whether
he's winning or losing
"I'm a Gemini..!"
he explains.
like duh
"I'm just a poor little Cancer!"
he is beating
himself up
about beating himself
I watch him move from
one side of the table to
the other
like a Buster Keaton movie
an eyelid twitches but
is instantly repressed
the eyebrow
about to be
raised...instantly isn't
he is a bad loser
even
to himself
a hand raises a King
and a Queen
is taken
his lips
a taut straight line
displays no emotion
I am only wearing
a thong
getting goosebumps
I chew a Swano 4906
bitten to shreds
"Five...I said...five letters!"
loudly just to annoy him
beginning with an O and
ending with OP
"Stowed cables
below water line!"
what kind of clue is that!
I haven't got a clue
"Harold honey!"
I yell
"Orlop!"
he grunts
"Orlop deck!"
never taking his eye off
of his other self
watching his every move
"Who would have
thought..."
I think to myself
"That *** and money
could become so
boring!"
a pillowcase on the line
***** for help
it has lost a peg
holding on by a peg
the wind makes it pregnant
its belly billows
it swells
and takes off
like a ship setting sail
jumps over the wall
chasing its own
horizon
"Me an' all!"
I thank it
for the tip
decide to leave
Harold honey
by Tuesday...at the latest
calculus battle clue 6 down
“tanquam ex ungue leonem”
N E W T O N I fill it in - done it
the clock shaves off
another bit of time
tick by tick by tick
it doesn't give a tock
a patina of time
covers the dusty ornaments
the eaves drip
Nature's clock
I measure time
by how long it takes
the cuckoo's voice
to travel
from the background
to the foreground of this
storm tossed morning
I feel myself as if I am
the personal measurement
of boredom
a fly lands
on a bishop's mitre
washes its hands
assiduously
then buzzes off
in case it catches religion
the chess pieces
resume
their silences
I feel like a female mammoth
frozen
in a block of ice
Time refuses
to move on
sti...sti...ICKS
my husband
plays chess
with himself
can never tell whether
he's winning or losing
"I'm a Gemini..!"
he explains.
like duh
"I'm just a poor little Cancer!"
he is beating
himself up
about beating himself
I watch him move from
one side of the table to
the other
like a Buster Keaton movie
an eyelid twitches but
is instantly repressed
the eyebrow
about to be
raised...instantly isn't
he is a bad loser
even
to himself
a hand raises a King
and a Queen
is taken
his lips
a taut straight line
displays no emotion
I am only wearing
a thong
getting goosebumps
I chew a Swano 4906
bitten to shreds
"Five...I said...five letters!"
loudly just to annoy him
beginning with an O and
ending with OP
"Stowed cables
below water line!"
what kind of clue is that!
I haven't got a clue
"Harold honey!"
I yell
"Orlop!"
he grunts
"Orlop deck!"
never taking his eye off
of his other self
watching his every move
"Who would have
thought..."
I think to myself
"That *** and money
could become so
boring!"
a pillowcase on the line
***** for help
it has lost a peg
holding on by a peg
the wind makes it pregnant
its belly billows
it swells
and takes off
like a ship setting sail
jumps over the wall
chasing its own
horizon
"Me an' all!"
I thank it
for the tip
decide to leave
Harold honey
by Tuesday...at the latest
calculus battle clue 6 down
“tanquam ex ungue leonem”
N E W T O N I fill it in - done it
