The Lord's My Green Shepherd
The lord is my problem; an interrupted mission; baroque theorem
ecstatic cognition. It was a sea place with copper in the air: I lived there, hanging over the balcony, my honey blonde hair. It was a fish place for spearing, a crab and a gull place. We took nothing with us but found things there They had a hospital and a secondhand shop The trees were bare, but the walls took messages from the artists passing through. There were books to be made. He's twining with ivy and flowers from Turkey (the old country). He brings us to the river; we have a job and no fireplace, I throw the deeds to the acres in the fire. My husband lost a bullock, my cupboards floated out to sea, I thought I would be murdered (there was a madwoman shot by police; but when the staff ran to her help, there was only a bundle of clothes, harm no one of good will, the bombers say Curl your hair in the manner of Eve, wear a strawberry beanie like a Russian refugee There was no good grass there, ask at the pub, where's the good grass At the hospital, locked in the secret ward, so no one knows about the disease. Winning cardgames, breaking horses, well that was somewhere else … but reputations follow like an Apollo (a nickname Fields of pistachio emeralds block the sun. I rang the bell, he didn't know how and the other thinks that heat can be contained like a square of cement (I like a flat monument). As velvet as a waistcoat. Why laugh or mock The tongue soon grows filaments, that in turn accrue pollen, while overpaid moths ding up and down like a mobile. The lord was cast more than decades ago. Divvied up in portions for those with telescopes and misused bell towers. Below the telescopes the skaters twirl their mirrorball stunts, shrieking, ‘How do you like these abs?’ and the gulls come in with affection and then realise they don't understand. A bird's abs are taken for granted A baby was born during the play; all my lost clothes turned up. There was kelp for long stretches, and clematis grew on the beach. How do you rollerblade me now? With prayers from the churches and temples, with watermelon that stands in for bread. I have a drink with a piece of the building, and wish I could have been there when it was still in place. It was later retrieved by the architect. But then the architect became an actor, and the actor became a lawyer, and I narrowly missed becoming a priest by spilling a white rabbit. There were goldfish in the bay today, the ship was taking a rest so the sheep could enjoy the sunshine. Two sheep were saved, two old ewes, mother and daughter. As they would tell anyone who would listen a lot of slaughter goes on in the background. People began to avoid them, and they would bleat after them ‘who's that jolly jumbuck, I'd like to have a beer with old regrets?’, as they pushed their shopping trolley through the sand, nibbling on anything half green
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