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art of
imperfection
squeeze
past
scratch,
tear
eke,
approximate
miss the
mark
peg the
square
I say the
wrong thing
put it the
wrong way
wrong words
come out of my mouth
scribble
mere marks onto paper
rub out
chase the
wrong tail
mean is
golden
pour over
it all
patch
things up best I can
I'm doing
my best
I kill the
thing that makes me strong
how do you
think I got here?
I use the
wrong colour
I make the
wrong mark
here are
the things that won't go together
the wrong
are always partying
(the pious
shake their well-coiffed heads)
I give it a
hundred and one percent
that's how
far awry I've gone
every voice
I tried
every mask
wrong!
none of my
clothes fit
thinking -
it's the same
I'm the
wrong body for the job
this one
line has led me astray
I was a
fool to follow, believe
faith kept
me ...
in the
cold, in the dark
a fire
would have burnt the place down
flood would
have washed
all the
while error
was wishing
me tricked
little
demons all chime in - characters!
they have
the run of the ship
we're all
under the Plimsoll line
can't see a
thing in this swim
but almost
there
almost
there
whose is
that voice in the head?
some
precious fuck
knows how
it all ends
I listen to
the wrong news
world is
all fucked up
a fake!
I'm the
biggest phony of all
sometimes I
fancy I know what it is
turns out I
was mistaken
egregious
rank
conspicuous
flagrant
wrong
symptoms
wrong
disease
wrong
measure
do you
think that the stairs only lead up?
follow this
melody?
fuck it up
did you see
me trip over?
face full
in it
did you
have a good laugh?
how skew my
home
they're
already eating it
there's the
big wind waiting
my garden
is a crooked thing
wrong
planet
wrong star
I'm here
the time
has come
beauty is
all
we behold
ReplyDeletebeauty is all
we love
what we behold
and all we muck up
not a problem
joys ping and ping
like a great foot massage
a home-cooked meal
your look now
ReplyDeletehonestly
I won't do much better
till the fire's on
I'm back in my cave
watching it all again
and there's the truth
ReplyDeleteif all be told
beauty's truth
ReplyDeleteand truth's a beauty
get on down
and shake your booty