Copyright © 2009 Ernest Bloom.
minutes crawled by in
hours of dim green
light when bobby
was a speed freak
and his hair curled up
tight like balls of snakes
or wriggling roundworms
nestling in a horse's
warm stomach so you
gotta know if you don't
know that your parents
are a reciprocating
fraction who've passed
through all this same
punk before
give you all my money
baby go with you all the
way up around the bend
and back then down the
lost highway but you
can't tell which is the
numerator and who's
down on the bottom
with factors seen and
unseen that cancel and
hidden variables forever
plugging in just like way
back when (but you know
you'll never know) bobby
was so saturated in
amphetamines
Hmm, interesting. A little pessimistic but true. Kids always repeat their parents' mistake, drugs, speeding or bad music taste.
ReplyDeleteHidden variables forever plugging in, factors seen and unseen- I like this elegant way of saying- nothing's obvious, reality is a fiction, a sort of Hamlet-like world seems the world of the speaker.
The description of worms wriggling in still warm horse stomaches is downright chilling and, ironically, stomach-churning. Quite fitting to the theme and circumstances, I should say.
hm, you're getting pretty good at plumbing the opaque, mr. denair.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Mr. Denair. The wiggly worm part was chilling.
ReplyDeletesubtraction is addition in disguise, just moving the other way on the number line; multiplication is nothing but serial addition; division is multiplication in disguise. which is the numerator and which is the denominator is irrelevant; what matters is the proportions in the relationship, which can easily flip-flop, and often does; other factors and addenda and exponents get appended to every life, and in the case of two people traveling together in a relationship, the math is never apparent from the outside and seldom enough from the inside; children have no hope of comprehending their parents; we all go thru the same kinds of experiences although it is often psychologically prohibitive for any of us to think too much of our parents having faced the same quandries that we face. no one wants to cough up a big ball of roundworms, though sometimes that kind of purge is very helpful. speed might as well be just a metaphor here, or elsewhere.
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