Tuesday, June 11, 2013

SUCH IS THE LIFE (with a nod to Tolkien)

stumbling in this era's dispensation...


I see grass green as emeralds

and people feasting and laughing and singing

with occasionally a duck under the lip of a boulder

as a shadow glides across the field...


and so people relax...but guardedly...

relieved that no one in particular is searching them out

because if any of these others were looking

they'd find them and make holy hell of their lives


in which case...except for the manner and means...

nothing really has changed at all...

the peaceful are always prey to the predators

and the predators tear each other in their tiny famines


and life in the earth is ever tenuous...



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