SHAKE
SHAKE YOUR MEANING-MAKER
I am aware that you have come to expect
meaning from me No 1/2 way crucifixions
You want the words nailed-down Yet it was
Picasso who railed at being nailed to the wall
And I do want to satisfy you But sometimes
meaning is muddy and I have not crawled this
far to be your meaning-maker modern Sapien
Meaning is a relatively new gene variant in Homo erectus
We used to be able to tolerate not-knowing some 1.6
billion yrs. ago Genetically predisposed to spot danger
we now struggle to see angry faces in the botoxed crowd
You wear your mortality like a bullseye under a sky of cosmic
blue where the clouds are moaning over you And like our
newest planet PSOJ318.5-22 (no poets at NASA) which does
not orbit a star you have been cast adrift in a world with a
serious shortage of silence
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Fall 2013
songanddancegirl 