Friday, August 20, 2004
Cracks
Cracks are good she said
in pain and hung her
head in vain and waiting
Help me with my cracks. They’re showing
far too much she said
and for such
boldness
learnt to feel ashamed and hung
her head again
There’s cures for cracks
I’ve heard she said
in superstores on the edges of towns. She waited
on an edge
forgetting where she was
and where she was supposed to be
No no no they said
All the packets of filler are in
the DIY
Oh so do I have to do it all myself
then? she asked as she
misheard
the directions
misread implications
made the mixture too dense
for anybody to get in
Except into a crack crept
a somebody who’d never minded
stiffness of mixture
Ooh smells good in
here to me he said
Cement, sticky fingers
make and mend, dough
I don’t know, - stuff
Anyway, cracks are
- good
he said in play
and went away
Yes, cracks are good she said
in pain and hung her
head in vain and waiting
And day after day
after day after day
learnt. Learnt
patience. Whenever he came
back there was another
crack, wider and deeper than the one
which came before it
Finally he said
Stuff it
Right she said
I'll help myself
instead
Hide she said
and dried
Cracks are good she said
in pain and hung her
head in vain and waiting
Help me with my cracks. They’re showing
far too much she said
and for such
boldness
learnt to feel ashamed and hung
her head again
There’s cures for cracks
I’ve heard she said
in superstores on the edges of towns. She waited
on an edge
forgetting where she was
and where she was supposed to be
No no no they said
All the packets of filler are in
the DIY
Oh so do I have to do it all myself
then? she asked as she
misheard
the directions
misread implications
made the mixture too dense
for anybody to get in
Except into a crack crept
a somebody who’d never minded
stiffness of mixture
Ooh smells good in
here to me he said
Cement, sticky fingers
make and mend, dough
I don’t know, - stuff
Anyway, cracks are
- good
he said in play
and went away
Yes, cracks are good she said
in pain and hung her
head in vain and waiting
And day after day
after day after day
learnt. Learnt
patience. Whenever he came
back there was another
crack, wider and deeper than the one
which came before it
Finally he said
Stuff it
Right she said
I'll help myself
instead
Hide she said
and dried
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