07-14-2022, 05:51 AM
I lived out other peoples’ dreams
of a better life. Pack horse,
guard dog, sheep to be shorn,
bull to be whipped into drawing the plough,
milch cow.
Now, out to pasture,
Out to pasture now. . . . Or simply leave the Now a phantom rhyme that people feel rather than see, or necessarily hear, or think about.
the heath is bare. Lightning’s in
That cross-out didn't rise high enough to get that pesky apostrophe.
There is a sense of "lightning's in the air", as you have written, that fits the kings consort bit, or . . .
the air,
and kings consort
with fools.
Out to pasture,
the heath is bare. Lightning in
the air,
and
now kings consort with fools.
Putting king and fool on the same level.
of a better life. Pack horse,
guard dog, sheep to be shorn,
bull to be whipped into drawing the plough,
milch cow.
Now, out to pasture,
Out to pasture now. . . . Or simply leave the Now a phantom rhyme that people feel rather than see, or necessarily hear, or think about.
the heath is bare. Lightning’s in
That cross-out didn't rise high enough to get that pesky apostrophe.
There is a sense of "lightning's in the air", as you have written, that fits the kings consort bit, or . . .
the air,
and kings consort
with fools.
Out to pasture,
the heath is bare. Lightning in
the air,
and
now kings consort with fools.
Putting king and fool on the same level.