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Jumping Jeremiah

Just scribbling in the bible book

taking a gander

having a look at

what Jesus said,

but

there's a lot of other things going on with

Mathew,

Mark and especially Jonah who's

slightly older.

 

The unexpurgated edition tells

the real tale,

 

It's a bit Medusa to say the least.

 

But this is not about religion,

that's not my pigeon as the hawk would say,

that's if hawks could talk.

 

it's more of a stroll through the undergrowth

where the lichen grows or

dipping my feet in the water and wiggling

my toes,

 

Realisation.

 

 

nothing is real

people craft miracles from icicles

and how hot is that?

 

we talk in rivers of riddles

we walk on flesh made of stone

 

call it a poem

call it galvanised steel

but

nothing is real.

 

Infinity stretches out like a worm

and

how do you compete with it

or last as long as it.

 

Repro'

 

the double and triple,

quadruplicated replicas

in camera

locked in a screen,

the ripple that runs through

your dream

where nothing is real but you

know it's not true,

 

are you the potency of

the reprobate?

 

Summer and the winds are fair

to the seafaring man

who used to be there

but who

now lives in the mission.

 

All things end in the end which is

as unreal as it gets.

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john-edward-smallshaw
70 / English
Published
Jan 17, 2017
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