Monday, November 3, 2014

Lars Palm





                                  (that standard face)

stares in
disbelief

            *

will walk
with
               or with
out us

            *

stands
taller than the

tower of
your choice

            *

sets new
               standards
for statues

            *

went about
its business

with terrible
amounts

of energy

            *

resists re
designing this
skirt
               & that
revolution for
commercial use

            *

buries a
pair of
               shoes in a
public waste
basket

            *

would not have
thought that
construction

work was quite
that unsafe in
this day & age

            *

applies

no rules

to oranges

            *

would
not think

so

            *

knows this
country
               is an
affliction

            *

rearranged by
government

approved tear
gas canisters

            *

couldn't
resist smiling
at the great

dane in the
               melancholy
portugese capital

            *

thought up
this great
conspiracy

            *

loves jumping
               up & down in
muddy puddles

            *

hit by
               heavy
               rains in
istanbul

            *

claims it
didn't start
               the fire

            *

says i did

            *

says you did
this & that

to people

it can't name
or describe

            *

rejected
              
several
grand ideas

            *

doesn't re
member if
it suffers

from short
               term

memory
loss

            *

stands
before a

jury charged
               with identity
theft

            *

brings
the sun

down
& the
rain

up out
of the pond

            *

opens the
curtain
on a brick
               wall

            *

is
not a
citizen

            *

asks if
               you
believe

in sanity

            *

eats an
orange while
watching the

moon
take a running
jump

            *

harbours some
seriously
               strange
ideas about
what
               makes a
cosmic
experience

            *

turns a
round to
get a
good
look at

that voice

            *

stars
in a
movie
               called
disbelief






© Lars Palm


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