THE MELAMINE TABLE TOP WITH
THE PINK GINGHAM TABLE CLOTH
You're kidding?
The goat is on
the table.
The goat comes in
( doesn't even bother to knock )&
stands on the table
for a good half hour
as if it were an art installation
or some obscure goat ritual
that humans are
unaware of
as if it were a phrase
in a foreign dictionary
the equivalent of
the cat sat on the mat.
And when the goat
is done
it just jumps down
and leaves
just as it came
as if it were
the most ordinary
of ordinary things
to do.
Even now, I still see
the ghost of that goat
even though it was long ago
made into stew
as if the goat realised
that a time
would come
& come it would
when it would end up
on the table
but not of its own
volition.
But right now
it is standing its ground
on the Melamine table top
with the pink gingham table cloth
and becoming that something that
just can not be
forgot.
Jan 9, 2016
Jan 9, 2016 at 9:45 AM UTC
THE MELAMINE TABLE TOP WITH
THE PINK GINGHAM TABLE CLOTH
You're kidding?
The goat is on
the table.
The goat comes in
( doesn't even bother to knock )&
stands on the table
for a good half hour
as if it were an art installation
or some obscure goat ritual
that humans are
unaware of
as if it were a phrase
in a foreign dictionary
the equivalent of
the cat sat on the mat.
And when the goat
is done
it just jumps down
and leaves
just as it came
as if it were
the most ordinary
of ordinary things
to do.
Even now, I still see
the ghost of that goat
even though it was long ago
made into stew
as if the goat realised
that a time
would come
& come it would
when it would end up
on the table
but not of its own
volition.
But right now
it is standing its ground
on the Melamine table top
with the pink gingham table cloth
and becoming that something that
just can not be
forgot.
