I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence
And so the days float through my eyes
But still the days seem the same
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're goin' through

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Because the Muse demands

(in my best Igor voice) "Yes, master."

So, like I said, I've been thinking about poetry, and I ride in to work early, and LBB had these wonderful pictures of smoke on the water, here's some lines that came flying out of the blue. The muse demands they be posted. Here it is.

Down below the grindylow
swim though twilight dreams
the washer women prepare their folded hair
and tend to your shroud's seams.

It's too sing-songy for me. I've studied poetry. I love Ferlinghetti. But there it is.

The muse has been proflic today, once I wrote those lines down. So here's to major breaks after I post this (and hopefully my typing will get better, it's been going downhill all day).

2 comments:

Camille Alexa said...

Hoping it's flowing, man.

Steve Buchheit said...

Yesterday she was (I call my muse a "she" because that's how I think of her, although sometimes "she" has a male voice).