Splinters

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Walk between the raindrops.
Step out from the bus stops.
Catch your death, then call the cops.
I’ve touched the bottom and it’s tops.

Wallow in your welcome.
Pluck a plinky plectrum.
See colors in perfect spectrum.
Powder your skin in talcum.

Why waste what wills you?
The taste of musty mildew
Makes a pasty breakthrough.
You walked in grace when he loved you.

Honest, I’m a morbid cow
To tell the truth, I can’t tell you how
To go on breaking a broken vow,
Or swallow the ache within you now.

Let’s go dancing on this lovely day,
Notwithstanding our feet in clay.
Once was chanting, now a soft hooray.
Some things you shouldn’t really have to say.

It came between us, now carved in stone.
The Birth of Venus stands so alone.
An empty vessel once her throne.
A train on trestle still wrestles to roam.

Walk with me and we'll let things lie.
Pull the splinters from our judging eyes

11/1/21