Give me reason to drink this down,
take it in, soak it up, absorbent,
sponge-like, temporarily
retaining within, dripping,
drying alone without motion.
Take from me a memory, ghost,
specter, phantasmagorical ectoplasmic shard
embedded in the brain
fusing rough nostalgia
to this lobe and that synaptic pulse.
Give me something else to throw away,
discard in baskets at a distance,
waste it on indifferent envelopes
and well-wishing words
tossed in fountains
flowing or not.
Take away this reason holding me
tightly to this rock,
like an unwanting carbuncle
wanting to let go.
Pry me away,
and see me stubbornly and freely
sink, knowing then to just forget
and remember again
the things that suck
don’t always suck
so much.
Keep this very thing moving,
pen and finger and hand;
mark it, blot it,
live this life and page and memory;
this thing, the adhesive gluing it all
together now - all together now,
bow away, bow and out,
forever and ever,
for nevermore
for ever
Amen.
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