Saturday, November 14, 2020

It's Useless Pretending They Aren't Finished

Not a filler post but a fill-in post to replace what you probably didn't see here Friday night (which I love you but wasn't for you) and disappeared Saturday morning

So, the beginnings of the Futile Weekend Blooging Pest, one of my blegging obsessive compulsions to not have the rare human click on a BLCKDGRD feed on someone's blagrill to discover a That Post Does Not Exist landing point

thus a live post for a live feed, this will probably *be* the futile weekend post, links now, links added, Fleabus last night


 




OBSESSIVE

Marvin Bell

It could be a clip, it could be a comb;
it could be your mother, coming home.   
It could be a rooster; perhaps it’s a comb;   
it could be your father, coming home.   
It could be a paper; it could be a pin.   
It could be your childhood, sinking in.

The toys give off the nervousness of age.   
It’s useless pretending they aren’t finished:   
faces faded, unable to stand,
buttons lost down the drain during baths.   
Those were the days we loved down there,   
the soap disappearing as the water spoke,

saying, it could be a wheel, maybe a pipe;   
it could be your father, taking his nap.
Legs propped straight, the head tilted back;   
the end was near when he could keep track.
It could be the first one; it could be the second;   
the father of a friend just sickened and sickened.

2 comments:

  1. I am so happy the Villagers are happy with all the Hub Bub. I will be eating a Swanson's TeeVee Dinner in my palatial 450-square-foot apartment at Thankslgiving, and praising President Rexall. And, Uncle Joe Bison was elected so obviously a blind man could feel it everything is getting better. Already.

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