Allen's Text 3899

means is a a pocket of past
even this is cheating
but to sit down and
COMPOSE
your real, that’s something
think about it if you can

you are a little hunk
hung in a dark web
where certain lines intersect
one of your functions
(is that the unpoetic word?)
to do this, sit down and compose
your real

like a cat on piano keys
romping giant floors of dark

here you sit
while the comets whiz
not far away

jostling the web’s great lines
as the millennia go like seconds
my age come upon me like the hooves of long ago
pounding on a door someone had locked

so the sparkling electron
one could say this moment was
takes the page/with the wording
and it’s going on that does it/when you least suspect

it’s an easy mind
can follow no trail

©2006-Allen Sutterfield