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Haley Hive

Honeybeehive buzzingbuzzing,

With bustling here to there and

Careful placement of this and that

Little detailed speck: this larva to feed,

That one to clean;

All quicklydeftly done - and yellow

Drips of sweet ideas a-thrum in the hard

Wax cells in rows in walls

Of a mind or several thousand -

Several thousand little slipperies slipping

There to here, upstream swimming

Crowded fishy river to mating grounds

For thoughts:

Thoughts

Piling on one another and asphixiating

In the thought-filled water there is not enough breath

Even the strongest swimming "whatifmaybe" drowns

Under a flopping swell of scaleslimy facts.

And there am I planktondrifting

Inside under; through water rushing,

Dashing on rocks and off of rocks,

Nearly into drowning mouths a-gaping

And then in the white rapidfoaming water

Escaping.

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Aug 24, 2012
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