he liked to play with words changeup spellings run them together like a
trainwreck see whahappened
see through
untamedeyes
brute utter bruteutter the second made him think of bruisedbutter
Joe his grandmother said careful at the churn, you don’t want to
bruise the butter. was that possible must be or she wouldntve said
braisedbeets
bruisedbutter
bruteutter
mysticmutter
mischief
havin
some fun playin
aint no mischief in that
What mischief are you getting into
now, laddie? Mr Carter
Mr Carter his middleschool English English teacher
understood him better than most maybe he
saw a bit of himself in him
laddie
by the end of eighthgrade he knew
himself better as laddie than Joe Mr
Carter breathing down his neck
not without reason without
reason would have been harrassment yes
2 Rs
lets say he was
prone to leaving doors open so opportunity had to come up step into the
threshold to rap them with hard knuckles
Mr Carter probably understoodsaw he was a throwback
that he wasnt going
forth into a black night without a torch or a compelling reason
not into creeping slouching
technologies that he felt would pull people apart like stickytaffy only the few preferred would elude being cooked
and stretched and mangled
laddie not faranaway from Luddite
which honorifically he
was
he argued for horses over
electrical cars Whahappens when batteries are spent Whahappened when nuclear rods were spent
But you don’t like horses.
Its not a matter of liking Im unfamiliar unfamiliar because I didnt grown up around them I appreciate their biology their strength
I prefer horses pulling wagons
running on open ground green grass watered and fed to sterile
scabs of concrete and tarmac that lace and twine and choke the earth
a lazy Ludditeladdie loungesrelaxes
on an old lavendercoloured Adirondack laced and latticed with greenshade
ivorypale lichen in a late summersun
just playin
0835, Day-between-Two-Ts, 3 3.
21
0954, Thursday,
11 3. 21
Elton John
Madman Across the Water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq4J_n6vMYo
