Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Kit Kelen #557 - déjà vu


557
déjà vu

a pale blank
nothing beginning
look up!

there isn't a sky you know already
there isn't a world your home

no fire before
but this smoke says
now

nothing beginning
one joins the day there where it is
like light joins dots to show

half of the rhythm is missing the beat
most of the truth is silence

nothing's beginning
so firstness is all ahead
has to be said
every skin's in the game

as if the hours were in another day
and we can listen in

wash off what?
the imperfection of all selves
was never an arrival

at the pump wherever we go
feint lines were always there
the rails ran off away

and after them!

half of the rhythm is missing the beat
most of the truth is silence

if sperm swam first
then where are the fish?

the journey of a thousand li
had to be dreamt before

it's as if there were no face
before love shone
no words before the song

canvas soaks up what will come
primed, re-primed, from scratch

isn't white all colours reflected?
there's democracy in that
it's what they call 'affirming the consequent'

more like snow is crystal reflected
because there are cones in the eyes

skin in the game
like a cloud come to settle

simply fail to follow
then you must make your own way

half of the rhythm is missing the beat
most of the truth is silence

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