yakksoho
Bluelighter
G'day eh I'm new here, here's an impersonal one:
Obituary
Diamonds are spangled
On my windshield like stars
And constellations of blood
From the impact of dying
As their soccerball heads come streaming towards
My face under a magnifying glass
What was the last thing they were thinking
Before they melted into each other
In the clear crystal sky?
Wings are made of snowflakes
And bubbles when added with water
Oscillating like blades of a fan
With the precision of blades of a dissection knife
A million more times
Than I will ever blink
Involuntarily like a heartbeat
A million times fewer
Heartbeats than mine
Mirrors are a disco ball
Out of a hundred
None reflects another
If no mirror reflects in the same direction
How does the brain know which one to see
And who to believe?
If my brain is so much bigger
How come I know
That I would be confused?
Or is he more confused than I am
And is that why he never stopped?
At what point
Does the sky around you turn to black
And how close do you have to be to a star
Before the black is behind you
Instead of before?
And if you were a star
Would you even know what darkness was
Or would you be born blind
Because you cannot close your eyes?
Nothing seems to happen
When a star burns out
Or when a fire ant eats a gnat
When a flower loses a petal
No tape and glue can put back the pieces
And no rubber band can keep
A star in a tin can
A candle and a prayer
Cannot burn down a gravestone
And a scotch and a bourbon
Cannot seal wings back together
So why when manatees drown in oil
And old men die for their sins
Is there a gardenia and a pledge drive
Instead of a toothpick for a gravestone
For the spider's entrée
Or an alyssum to remember
An airborne slab of roadkill
That never hit the ground?
Every time we floor ninety on the highway
We are in the firing line
But what a just god!!
We're not even the ones who get shot
If I were a jigsaw puzzle
The only real Hell would be
Where nobody ever tried
To put me back together again
30.10.01
Obituary
Diamonds are spangled
On my windshield like stars
And constellations of blood
From the impact of dying
As their soccerball heads come streaming towards
My face under a magnifying glass
What was the last thing they were thinking
Before they melted into each other
In the clear crystal sky?
Wings are made of snowflakes
And bubbles when added with water
Oscillating like blades of a fan
With the precision of blades of a dissection knife
A million more times
Than I will ever blink
Involuntarily like a heartbeat
A million times fewer
Heartbeats than mine
Mirrors are a disco ball
Out of a hundred
None reflects another
If no mirror reflects in the same direction
How does the brain know which one to see
And who to believe?
If my brain is so much bigger
How come I know
That I would be confused?
Or is he more confused than I am
And is that why he never stopped?
At what point
Does the sky around you turn to black
And how close do you have to be to a star
Before the black is behind you
Instead of before?
And if you were a star
Would you even know what darkness was
Or would you be born blind
Because you cannot close your eyes?
Nothing seems to happen
When a star burns out
Or when a fire ant eats a gnat
When a flower loses a petal
No tape and glue can put back the pieces
And no rubber band can keep
A star in a tin can
A candle and a prayer
Cannot burn down a gravestone
And a scotch and a bourbon
Cannot seal wings back together
So why when manatees drown in oil
And old men die for their sins
Is there a gardenia and a pledge drive
Instead of a toothpick for a gravestone
For the spider's entrée
Or an alyssum to remember
An airborne slab of roadkill
That never hit the ground?
Every time we floor ninety on the highway
We are in the firing line
But what a just god!!
We're not even the ones who get shot
If I were a jigsaw puzzle
The only real Hell would be
Where nobody ever tried
To put me back together again
30.10.01
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