Voices, broken in the boughs sleepwalking on nulled roads echoing in the rain, and the swings, empty rocking in the winds: dry withering to budding, scenes we never saw, until now the everyday season; Long since time stopped and vanished behind the screens; Then, can I call you, 'The Day'? Echoes in the alleyways and the dreary skies all the same; But I must mark The Day: now I chore, then endlessly refocussing juggle as broomed go we muggles; Know who's lasered on next? Worry not, as big realms have no pockets but ours; For the ledgers must roll on; Unmarked, we may go, like this The Day, BUT: now work galore
(a noir reflection on our times: originally written on 25 July 2020