Monday, December 17, 2012

Changed priorities ahead (2003)



Changed priorities ahead
Of a small inconsequential pair of poised lips
Dangle like the fruit
Delicate, red,
Sincere and demanding like
A how-to manual inscribed in code
And coded for those
Already ahead one play.

No entourage to shuffle you through
While the others have to feel it out
Well, we’re in the same yacht now.
I used to hate them.
But the old woman on the sail talked me into it.
A strange little thing
That liked to gorge herself on brothers and sisters—
Taught you about it.

I’ve called on brevity
And he was in a meeting.
Insulting, but
I knew it all along in an early way
Seemingly indifferent
But that planner I wore through (the laughed one)
Was full of more than laundry lists
And the to-do’s
Were figures of destiny—
Unclear and they enclosed you
While you thought to wait in ambush.

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