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Got a book coming out
There’s a film due for release
An album hitting the stores

and after all that
you will still have no idea
who I am

The universe stalled on me
long ago and left me here
with a head full of floating ideas

and no place to set them down
I am a near-sighted clown to the masses
good enough for entertainment

not good enough for action
You don’t know me as I struggle
with a poem and a movie and a song

all the time saying
not that not that not that
Like speaking in rabbit tongue

I’m frightened all the time
Mouthing platitudes till I can run
back to a hiding place

in plain sight
of the gates of the town folk
but under their superficial gaze

Far below I sit and make my work
I shake my head each time I finish one
A poem with no gut

A film without a brain
A song on an album full of air
You don’t know me at all

but you think you’ve got enough
Or maybe you do and I’m the fool
Or maybe none of us know a thing

but I got an album coming out
A movie waiting on the imminent shelf
A book ready for release

I am not in that straining and tenseness
Will likely die before any of it is clear
Will likely become a laugh before that

Not that Not that Not that
The chant goes out over fields
I close my eyes and smile and nod

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onward,
T