Murmurations
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Visitations
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Escape, escape
Put on your cape. Race to the edge. Leap from the ledge, Your longing, Into black. Arms stretched out. Arch your back. Catch your calling. Don’t fear falling. Limbs in all direction. Channel change detection In the atmosphere. Just keep calling, Till someone hears Your caterwauling. Listen, listen Through the static. Pick up a signal Respond emphatic. Out there someone, Same clicky clack. Ever wonder. Click them back. Not just given, Also taken. Force it, fake it. Till you make it. Hurry, Hurry Before you’re out. Out of spirit. Out of time. Out of hope. Out of rhyme. 11/10/21 Summer, the present.
Hotter than blazes. The place, third floor walkup. We’re off to the races. I'm timed for departure. But don’t want to go. Some unfinished business, I'm a tough so and so. My wings like a copter. My pitch, a no hitter. My moves, Zulu war dance. I’m no baby sitter. That man with the candy Has something for free. He’s dressed like a dandy And wants her to see. Stay back, little darlin. Go on with your games. Don't follow who’s dancing And calling your name. Please take someone else, Who’s better deserving. Some other hardluck Whose life road is swerving. See who? See who, Lou? Zulu, see who? Don't crawl out the window. Whatever you do. I'll pitch for the Angels. Catch this one for you. Love ’s always for sale. You’ll see what I mean. A soft spot for children To fall in that’s clean. 11/12/12 ZONE E1S2 Perhaps there's a soul
That hasn’t been tricked. A dimensional flavor That hasn’t been licked. Imagination leaves No stone unkicked. Maybe it’s healthy To feel this sick. Who’s running the picture? Who’s watching the road? Next time he’ll remember To follow the code. Time to wake up. Been over two weeks. Time to start asking. To search and to seek. Is someone there spying? Who’s changing the reel? Who’s running the picture? Will all be revealed? A town without people. What’s left here to see? For now or forever. Not sure I agree. Release the Subject It’s quarter past six. He’s resorted to shouting His inner conflicts. Where have they all gone? Why am I here? How long will it take Till I disappear? 11/12/12 ZONE S1E1 Come the rains,
In Spain, Falling Parallel planes. Millicent Barnes, Iridescent charms, Finding comfort In ganglion arms. Sees her twin, An impish, sizzle grin. Her ticket taker Checking in. Bus Depot replay. Static station relay. Image doctrine hearsay. Transit tempo delay. Paul Grimstead, Level harrow head, Brain wetting the bed. Irrational instead. Time to go, Pinocchio. Try to play for keeps In your rainy rumble seat. Imagination leaps. Rather, runs away. But i'm not here to tell you What she really had to say. So lock her up. Take her in. Make the arrest. Go find her twin. Check it out. Then check her in. Learn to take it On the chin. A see through Season Falls apart. Not worth chasing Counterpart. 7/2/20 ZONE S1E21 Greasy grief
Heartless thief Choking chief Falling leaf, Caught in the act. Action packed. Altered, hacked. Facts are facts. Raging demon Wasted semen Eyes’ sharp gleaming Headlights beaming. Tall and morbid Squalor torpid Open trunk lid Parked on Euclid. Backing forward. Not mine, your words. Punch the scoreboard. A broken record, What you came for, Take and go. What makes it yours, I don’t know. Wayward seeds Sometimes grow Where fallow soil Belies the row. 6/7/21 Play the zither.
Run with scissors. No time to dither The live long day. Zip a dee yay. World upside down. On the page. On the town. The cookie crumbles. Objective case Whom the bell tolls. Angel face. In the mirror. Take my place. Not the same as it once was. Rearranged now, just because. Starting over has its’ ways When you’re having one of those days. But do you really start again? Or just keep playing in the pen? Wouldn’t trade it for the world. Tisket, tasket cloth unfurled. High regard for little things Coo coo clocks with painted wings. Down the rail. In the street, Kids are dancing With happy feet. ZONE S1E33 Faithless squalor
Down the hollar. Today the vendor On a wagon bender. There’ll be a hanging. Our hearts cleve, dangling On broken rope, Unravelled hope. The pig then whistles A misguided missile. Shiny trinkets, Blind stitch blankets. There’ll be a banquet For those with mercy. But we who drank it, Our pain is cursory. Salvation swinging In the balance. A swayback horse And shoulder valance. There is a force When tongues are wagging. Oh yes, of course, He sells the magic. And so we buy. Because we paid For tears, to cry, The Lord hath made. 1/7/25 ZONE S2,E12 Wait outside.
There is a line. Broadway hit, A pantomime. Back in time, Our favorite booth, Dancing wine, A happy youth. Now we're getting long in tooth. Foretold us by the sayer sooth. These rose colored memories, Now dear departed reveries. Don’t you love me? Please take me back. Is this for real? Or an attack? I’m sweating, burning. Can’t you see? Scene one. Take two What comes of me? I love you more Than the script can tell. Back whence you came, To break the spell. Laura, Laura, Darling wife, There’s coatcheck In the afterlife. Recite your lines And I’ll resign To acting out The end of mine. 11/22/24 Zone S2E9 Once requited,
Now united. Huddled, handled. Demons battled. Egress To restlessness. Simple Simon In excelsis. Nightly newscast. Foolish iconoclast, Learning nothing From the past. Erased. Callous waste. Leaves no trace, Withholding. A dream unfolding. Foiled wrapper. Parchment mapper. Party trapper Without purpose Too demanding From baggage handing Interlopers. Sweet false hopers Sweep light beams Under carpets In Hollywood scenes. 3/4/21 Lofty heights
Shadows low Tufts of white Here we go. Wobbly grids Candy kids Mama’s lap Take a nap. Daddy’s work Rough hewn hands Denim shirt Tomato tans Not much fun In farmlands. Dig a hole. Fetch a stick. Looking for A ball to kick. Tween the lakes Eerie, Huron, Give and take Wave of wand. High above. Life below. Adventuring So and so. 4/23/22 |
