oll korrect

OK is everywhere, every country, every language

like music or smiles universal—

it’s said to have come from a Founding Father

who misspelled "all correct" on an

important

revolutionary

document.



If he had only known.



Some two hundred years later and

everything has moved on too quickly.

 

my mind is only just catching up

to find things it should have been patching up 

some six years ago or so. or more.

this is volatile.

this is dangerous, and scary, and oh-so tantalizingly infantile.

but...



how do you declare 

how do you make a declaration

with no shoulders to stand on

no one to come before



and a whole lot of frustration, and running away (brave sir robin),

which i don't much care for. 



OK, let’s move on:



take an image, something real to you, to you and no one else,

one piece of celluloid or a polaroid,

fold it in half, swallow it whole, mull it over

in the gray squishy tissues up above

the world so high

	what’s the picture?

	what do you taste there in the paste you’ve made of

a once clear shot.  

like a bullet.

maybe...



	maybe mother’s swaddling arms and daddy’s perplexed face

	waiting for you to say something, ("please let it be me first")

	waiting, and pacing, hearts a-leapin’ like 

that time you rode your bike over

a pile of wood chips

flipped head-over-handle bars

bloodied nose, bloodied bravery.



you knew, one day, that you not like the rest

	look at me when I’m thinking of you

had to say something about that thought

	get your fingers outta your mind

had to stand up tall and shout it out to the world

	stand straight, don’t slouch, spit out your heart

had to thrust fists high and proclaim the Truth

	be quiet, settle down, don’t blow your brains in

had to tremble before G-d and wonder, 



is this all, was that it?  



be more cryptic when talking to your deity

	don’t make a tool of me.



Come this Far.  a drawn line to be jumped over, 

like the moon, velut luna,

freely with glee and other "eee" 

we go.  like lambs.  to the ennui.









copyright 11.15.02  -erm