Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Kit Kelen #386 - I am a small potato (effort to be a good man -- thinking of Rob's black hat sardine)


I am a small potato

death is coming fast
I say this in perfect health for my age
I say 'perfect' health
but there are certain reminders
time is throttling up
aches in the bones
there are rings in the ears
you can't set aside

I am a universe expanding
though this can't last long either
it's the weariness will get me
you explode or else you fall apart

yes I'll be ash to air or sinking
remembered for what while?
for what?
then no 'I' at all
none to say long since
so of these species gone
and planets tossed, lost stars

at least I won't have wasted
my time on a war
or believing that any lie's
larger than life

I won't have gone thinking
there was a destination
(hard as that idea is to blot out)

I like to imagine
on my little patch
the trees a hundred years beyond me
and someone still snout in the books
and eyes up
ferreting poems
from out of whatever

in every place that won't be mine
I hope to have lived each day
best as can
so friends
will recognize a loss
and in their short time
spare a thought
to speak of me
this way

2 comments:


  1. at least I won't have wasted
    my time on a war
    or believing that any lie's
    larger than life

    I won't have gone thinking
    there was a destination
    (hard as that idea is to blot out)

    In every place that won't be mine


    Very fine.


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