Amiss....
oh dear, what all did we not do? what a rich life did we not lead? our dreams, our fantasies, all in those gutters of lil roads slyly plying right through our houses (stopping shy of being homes) โ flowing slush and sewage, mad of heavyweighted dreams jamming their sticky slimy smooth flow.
(we must dream our way, they said, we must dream our way, hmm)
oh dear, what all did we not dream? out in the comfort stations bickering across busy highways, pungent with thickly clotted coated urine punctured with obscene graffiti; with grandiose plans, and grander visions, breathing immortality down the lane, sensing plain history staring you staring me in the eye, promising immensity to all lofty schemes, and eternity.
(and then you travel all the roads, and you find out big nasty nothings)
oh dear, what all did we miss? hungry nights, half-forgotten sleeps, measuring minor heat waves on sweaty sheets over icky bodies, bubbling vinyl tapes humming old songs: claiming airspace with gently-left creeping puffs of smoke.
(don't smoke, didn't they tell you, that it kills you bit by bit, like music?)
oh dear, how long left to leave? warping time in a slowly bending loop, dipping hopes in softly meshed chains across territories nobody owns; crumpled on the borderlines like soggy clothes on the line, washed up and disfigured, forgotten by the world that put it out to dry (with no care for the rain and the mud and the slush) โ now too weak to look ironed-out or flutter in any wind.
(but clothes dry, clothes dry, don't they, in wind, sun or on the run?)














