Kit Kelen #928 - a novelty people

928

a novelty people 

 

are you a name

in the room of voices?

no one's in particular

but all around us here

a novelty people

thing of what was done

and fell asleep for a thousand years

and another thousand slept

each clings to his her own confusion

came into a poem

like this

just to be

come into our own song

a pile of shoes

could remind you of Jews

and the good fairy was the one we called God

or else you don't say

my lost family

will you help to see them in my eyes

an outline of anyone's trees

would the dead not be speaking

had death not been done to them

and one more trick

it's only by the end of the world we're allowed

wreck of a place still to be built

as a child I lived near where the wall would be

and I feel safer there

now only the wall stands up for me

what a lovely absence we make