Today's Verse: 15 April 2024

I'm looking for a pet
To carry my resentments

Indulge me every penchant

Adore me like a god

Without a conscience

Attractive and repulsive

As only beasts can be

Certainly no better than me

To suffer each compulsion,

Obsession, delusion

In exchange casual,

Habitual, sentimental

Benificence

(A Vision of America Seen) Counterclockwisely

I stand astride 

Across the continent

Sea to shining sea

Watching the time

Flow back into the past

Counterclockwisely

Old men grow young

Their births then undone

Fruit grows into the tree

Which then turn to bud

Vanishes in the mud

Counterclockwisely 

The ships full of men

Sailing against the tide

And back in time

Transatlantically

I see from above

Words flying off the page

Unwriting history

It’s not The New World

It’s not an empty stage

It’s another chance to be

Counterclockwisely