Wednesday, 19 June 2013

Exceptional Death Rattle

You may be the exception
to every rule: burning roses
in June, the death rattle
after the cure

your quest for emptiness
trumps nothing, yet you never learned
the intonation of mu

in Old Tokyo
we sojouned.
I was besotted with Osu.
the concept of nothing and kindness.

I take your hand politely
after tending your home site
a grave you share with three greedy wives.

time slips
shoddy and my feet are ruined
but high arched.

No one cares; it matters not—
such a cold and lonely afterthought.

 

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