beside thoroughfares

 
Karen Robiscoe dba CHARRONs CHATTER

it would take so little

from you

to pull me back

from the hole inside

al-O-ne
 
 
through gritty Wonderland

refuting death

and people fantastically

deus et machina

(and so polite, too)

Still, I won’t distance

myself from myself

for all your distance

I’ll stay close to

my bones

perpetually moving

in circles choked straighter

Foregoing additional

shock and

mortal fear

and man-made concept

shirking deluded and dead minds

I always have

and always will!

in the way Kool-aid’s

always been fat free

(sneaky like that)

I’ll stain ego

begging to be heard

and break down walls

at will

refined by sugar, of course,

but hells yeah!

Suffer adrenalin

and sling and arrow

for the Heart and

the meek, only

the well-mannered, too,

I suppose

and sure, maybe I’m one of them

but maybe I’m

not

donning casual wear

armor

tilting silver pen

on wild avenues

the archest of archers

Holding out my arms

between shots

for balance.

©Karen Robiscoe

About Charron's Chatter

I bring to you an arrow, whole, Use it, or break it, But if you choose to take it --Know-- With it also, I will go. © Karen Robiscoe @1992

5 Responses to “beside thoroughfares”

  1. Makes me wonder who the speaker was speaking to. I liked the “deus et machina” part. Not bad, archest of archers~!

  2. I really like this.

    If you move in circles, eventually, you won’t be able to distance as you’ll get closer each time. Unless you are going the other way.

    Holding out my arms between shots for balance. That was brilliant Karen.