the infrequent fish
my friends call me
today i met a barber
doorman, doctor, explorer
words exchanged
and directions changed
with not but a shaking of hands
has anyone a hole
or half a whole at that,
to help me puncture this bubble?
my love waits for me outside
slight and sunny amid the rubble
stained brown and ashen
from smack cigarettes, eyes
trained on an approaching vanishing point
muscles long in anticipation
strained and frozen
o to be clever!
read songs to me
sing me some poetry
i can’t hear anything over
this droning air conditioner
that is making me cold
there’s not much variety
to be had on this island
(these days i am
a lowly potato bug)
the brighter species
driven away by
pollution and corruption
dropped in between oceans
largely ignored by fish
and set upon from all sides
by glowinthedark boxing shrimp
one more reason to sit still
and
sink
into
these depths that remain unsounded
dreams, schemes that are not unfounded
with attentions, intentions that may be golden
but for this wooden leg that keeps me grounded
like a stalled space program
posted by oldben @ 3:14 PM
7 little fish:
I especially love the first stanza. As I read it I fell into an interesting rhythm that keeps going around and around in my head!
carl, thanks. art, i was gonna say the same about yer name, and your bunny.
tlovely darlin, lovely - just two questionings:
1) is this new?
2) how'd you get bloggie to space like that?
it is new, and to put in a non-breaking space you have to use the code ' ', minus the little quotes, but you do need the semi-colon. to get the spacing on and there i had to use 5 nbsp's.
damn, ok... with a semi-colon at the end is the code
ok, this is not working. i'll try it this way... & n b s p but take away the spaces. does that make sense?
you know - since one i can view source on this page and two i can go to the post editor and view the html of the post - i can see how you did it... I AM SO POWERFUL!!! FEAR ME!
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