witnesses lacking
the system of conversation is ineffectual
there is prejudice & preference
& far behind it all there is
perfection through subtle hues singing
seeking hints of illumination
& brave sublime improvements...

ideal assertions are upended
at every bend in the road
music is replaced by noise
rhythm by agitation
& intellectual mink fan out
scatterling & siphoned off
from stewardship of small domains...

bestial burgeoning vessels
strewn across seas of consent
inebriated roam
forgetting their intended port
serving at intervals the good
the bad the needy & the hidden
bursary hand of balance...

everything that comes together
in the music & ruckus thinly spiced
imagining worlds beyond
everything that wallows or struggles
across the momentary llano of becoming
will become the balance
of displacements it has suffered...

© 2002 Joseph Robertson

 

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JOSEPH ROBERTSON
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