07-15-2017, 08:17 AM
Island
(revised)
My parrot reaches with his beak,
grabs hold, drags me back
into the present, with a nip.
He doesn’t approve
of daydreams.
Here and now, boys, here and now
he quotes Huxley.
My parrot is smarter than me.
My parrot reaches with his beak,
grabs the future, drags it
back to the present, with a nip.
He knows when I’m dreaming;
he doesn’t approve. ‘Here
and now, boys, here and now’
he insists. I had no idea
he’d read Huxley. I think he
could be smarter than me.
(revised)
My parrot reaches with his beak,
grabs hold, drags me back
into the present, with a nip.
He doesn’t approve
of daydreams.
Here and now, boys, here and now
he quotes Huxley.
My parrot is smarter than me.
My parrot reaches with his beak,
grabs the future, drags it
back to the present, with a nip.
He knows when I’m dreaming;
he doesn’t approve. ‘Here
and now, boys, here and now’
he insists. I had no idea
he’d read Huxley. I think he
could be smarter than me.