Kit Kelen #557 - déjà vu

557

déjà vu

a pale blank

nothing beginning

look up!

there isn't a sky you know already

there isn't a world your home

no fire before

but this smoke says

now

nothing beginning

one joins the day there where it is

like light joins dots to show

half of the rhythm is missing the beat

most of the truth is silence

nothing's beginning

so firstness is all ahead

has to be said

every skin's in the game

as if the hours were in another day

and we can listen in

wash off what?

the imperfection of all selves

was never an arrival

at the pump wherever we go

feint lines were always there

the rails ran off away

and after them!

half of the rhythm is missing the beat

most of the truth is silence

if sperm swam first

then where are the fish?

the journey of a thousand li

had to be dreamt before

it's as if there were no face

before love shone

no words before the song

canvas soaks up what will come

primed, re-primed, from scratch

isn't white all colours reflected?

there's democracy in that

it's what they call 'affirming the consequent'

more like snow is crystal reflected

because there are cones in the eyes

skin in the game

like a cloud come to settle

simply fail to follow

then you must make your own way

half of the rhythm is missing the beat

most of the truth is silence