unlikely resignations
and fanfare sit in my bottom drawer
all the times i quit my job
all the times i made it to the top
i line my life with cotton
my bureau with dreams - there is a climax of thinking
in it all
the constant and the profound
there in lies the comedy - still awaiting a rewrite
and cast
(said) life is a contest - a hopscotch,
a jump rope of possibility
a woman laughs
in an adjacent room - she passes the
screen test but
lacks identity - some want
to call her mistress
i'll just call her
whore...
bkmackenzie
copyrighted 2012
unlikely the real me....resigned...bkm
ReplyDeleteSorry, I couldn't resist. :)
"the constant and the profound
there in lies the comedy"
Thank you my friend, please do not resign from visiting....take care over there...bkm
Deletesome really nice lines in this bk...
ReplyDeletei line my life with cotton
my bureau with dreams...says much...
and the constant and profound lines as well...
thank you Brian...cotton and dreams that is heaven...bkm
DeleteI like in this the uncertainty about where to step, the history forever waiting to be made coherent or the fantasy so inauthentic. We create the real through continual role-playing, yet that is what is left, collected from that, seems false and untranscendant compared to the fantasy.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for the visit and comment William...life is continual role-playing - thankfully we can change roles from time to time...bkm
DeleteYeah, she's a fickle gal, but if anyone can (re)write her an identity, it's you. Love the image of the bureau lined with dreams...
ReplyDeleteHave missed you ds...I have not been good at replies and visits...that is the fickled in me...let me see if I can rewrite myself...blessings...bkm
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