Thursday, July 31, 2008

Moving Fast

You move fast oh so fast

gum chomping hair swishing blip blip blip

grocery store items whizzing past your counter

you talk a mile a minute no room for idle time

you nudge you prod with badger eyes you deliver

a glare for pausing a moment to consider

what it would take for all of these movements to

coalesce in space replacing all our physical needs with

a single push of a button. No time for desire no time

to recall the memory of yesterday, lying sullen under

the boughs of the mulberry tree watching fat purple berries drop

onto sodden earth, a rebirth of sorts but no matter now,

how it is that we have evolved in time.

You walk faster and faster. I will never know where you

end up for I will always be all the further behind. Don’t mind

me.

Copyright 2008 Maia Twedt

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