Almost like a mirror to Look at you. A sort of Alice on the other side Of the looking glass. You are a reflection I never thought might exist. But there are flaws spiderwebbing cracks into the glass, The picture so minutely cracked here and There that it might all just Fall out of the frame.
Words, picked like highhanging fruit, Stack and Form the Edges of your Mind-- brilliant walls of Buckingham but also the boxes of fruit (high hanging like the words) floating down congolese waters and into the heart
--of Darkness? only kurtz knows but does it matter? still Grand as ever--
They're words I see in myself on my side And music from Mechanicsburg Anchorage Dar es Salaam sings down the same Congo we share
But the only cracks I see are with me. Your words and wit are the envoys, Celebrated diplomats from the Heart that lies downriver. eyes flash and the Fruit is bountiful and Hail the heart (wherever whatever it is down the River).
The words are strong as the man who sent them (somewhere in the Heart) Such strength to speak and shout Respect commandeddemanded in the fruit
I often wonder if I have it. And each time I know I don't Another crack is born.
the tally man sends his beautiful fruit-- strong as everforever To the world, smileonface and gleamineye--