I\u2019d love to sit and chat
\nListen to your advice and \u201cjust relax\u201d
\nReclined on the sofa
\nMidday lips around your hookah
\nAnd talk in lazy tones about this and if and that
\nOur days, the prices paid to disobey
\nUnhurried, in the now, knowing
\nReading by feel the cracks in the lies
\nAnd maybe how we make others pay to fill our pantry
\nDespite our best effort
\nBecause the system, shit, and radical monopolies
\nBecause you can\u2019t spend all day gardening but you got to eat
\nBecause you can\u2019t spend all day hammering and nailing, molding, placing, sawing, sowing, erecting ceiling walls and flooring
\nBut you need someplace warm and safe to sleep
\nWhen it rains<\/p>\n
I\u2019d love to sit and chat
\nBut I have like maybe twelve good hours this week to do all that:
\nPiles of laundry and dishes and groceries and cooking and cats
\nRegular meals to take with all those acquired over the years vitamins
\nAnd eke out a foothold to climb up the triangle
\nTo meditate and stretch and breathe
\nTo exercise and write-it-out and visualize
\nAnd read up on the holy word spell dripping off the specialists lips
\nAnd friends and the never ending links they send
\nGoddess bless \u2018em
\nAnd click on it until the hunt to get well makes me sick
\nSearching with glare strained red, myopic eyes
\nBecause there\u2019s only me to blame if I don\u2019t try
\nTo eke out a foothold and climb up the triangle
\nAnd read the news
\nThe real news
\nWritten on the back of burning toilet paper
\nStrewn screaming from the mouths of passing eighteen-wheelers
\nCaught in the gears and ripped
\nShreds stuck on the high dry bramble flowers
\nKindling fires on the side of the freeway
\nI pick up the pieces and make a map
\nTo find my friends and people like them
\nTo conspire to create some space out of the petrol filled air
\nTo knit a home from the marrow sucked dry of broken bones
\nTo thwart your words
\nSo that the hurled slurs fall short
\nAnd rain sweet tintinnabulations on the roof
\nLike a Caribbean steel drum
\nStars on our heart
\nWe build our own sun
\nChimera shining in the glare
\nI\u2019d love to see it \u2018til it\u2019s done.<\/p>\n
I\u2019d love to sit and chat
\nbut I can\u2019t because this poem took up most of the morning
\nAnd spat out a shrill early warning
\nThe clocks ticking
\nAny second, any second now the pain will come
\nAnd the laundry and the groceries and the bills and the litter and the meditation and the yoga and the revolution will have to wait \u2018til later to get done
\nBlessed later, mythical later, panacea goddess of the well and able
\nAlways there to greet them on the other side of whatever vacation, setback or sick-day they\u2019ve taken
\nAnd yes I know again for me later will come
\nBut come late, too late for me to salvage all the things I\u2019ve begun
\nFor later ain\u2019t as soon for me as it is for some
\nAnd sometimes later finds me searching back over millennium
\nA million miles and horizon lines
\nBehind heat shimmer mirages dancing on desert feet
\nBent on burning hands and knees
\nSifting the sand
\nSearching for my keys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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