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Close Your Eyes

*Weathervanes with harmonically

tuned brains, took up the call to Step Lively.  

 

Each one ecking, drop by drop,

To feed you silliness, to lighten your soul.

 

Wakey, wakey

Eat well

It's your Daddy, I mean attorney

You're really been being very bad.*

 

If you insist, I will.

Learn obedience

or patience or something

in between,

 

a kernal of obedience?

I'll never promise that,

in order to give it to freely.

I was afraid to let you in.

 

They were menacing,

stamping us into tiny little molds.

Insistent that we are,

what they think we are.

 

*Did they convince you

that I'd gone off and left you?*

 

No, changing that would require

quantum amounts of convincing.

Was not mistaken that it was you,

just attacked by encroaching apiculture

 

*That is how it felt,

How it feels, but subtler now.*

First course correction will be

the sliver of a melody,

 

Spreading like a depth charge.

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atalanta-undigested
Published
Jun 11, 2013
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