Every five minutes they come
whirring like copters for war
slashing through immaculate peace
you crave to blanket your day with
Those speeding three-wheeled
gadflies
are kings of small streets and
act like you must pay them to
Extricate you from a cluster of
doomed and dusty eggs and bacon
deliver all that racket
in your head
every time you think
about buzzing
drones
on your meatloaf
in your heart
in your dreams
on your hopes
on your thoughts
about how marriage
should be
a man and a woman
now one soul in
two bodies
living together
committed
fighting for stable
“everydays”
The roses look damp
bouquets of mums
on the kitchen table
you pouring hot coffee;
the mug you took two
hours to pick out
is punctiliously stained.
Nov 2, 2016
Nov 2, 2016 at 10:49 AM UTC
Every five minutes they come
whirring like copters for war
slashing through immaculate peace
you crave to blanket your day with
Those speeding three-wheeled
gadflies
are kings of small streets and
act like you must pay them to
Extricate you from a cluster of
doomed and dusty eggs and bacon
deliver all that racket
in your head
every time you think
about buzzing
drones
on your meatloaf
in your heart
in your dreams
on your hopes
on your thoughts
about how marriage
should be
a man and a woman
now one soul in
two bodies
living together
committed
fighting for stable
“everydays”
The roses look damp
bouquets of mums
on the kitchen table
you pouring hot coffee;
the mug you took two
hours to pick out
is punctiliously stained.
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