I woke up tomorrow and everything was just like two days from now. You were asking me all kinds of questions that I didn't have the answer to. No, all kinds of questions that I didn't care to answer---to.
And one week from today in that direction was always the wrong direction from moving ahead. In the middle of tomorrow I had an interminable dream that was infiltrated with an emerald sky and a bunch of trees that I kept running toward but never got close enough.
Until yesterday. Yesterday I could remember what happens two weeks from now. I learned to run up the tree the way a boarder rides the crescent cement. I would be invincible, knowing that none of this could come back to me.
I took my kaleidoscope and started connecting all the paisley little dots. We would not be the star crossed lovers they wanted us to be. Not if I have anything to say about all of this.
It would start with not returning a phone call from tomorrow evening. In the middle of the night, yes the middle of the night.
It was a good thing being lucid. I would be rewarded here. I am certain of it. That's what happens if and when you find the antidote to hindsight.
It is indeed a puzzling puzzle, future, past, tomorrow and Friday all incongrously rolled together!!!!
ReplyDeleteintriguing perspective and playful chronology. Sometimes, I feel like there are moments that can be extracted and extrapolated on in their own right, possibly becoming even more coherent pieces. For example, take these lines:
ReplyDeleteI took my kaleidoscope and started connecting all the paisley little dots. We would not be the star crossed lovers they wanted us to be. Not if I have anything to say about all of this.
Man, what a great visual this is. We only get a taste of it here, but this could be the theme of an entire poem.
I picked up on the tone especially with the final lines where the chronology gets the literal treatment with a statement that includes, "...the antidote to hindsight", but there seemed to be a lot going on in this piece. Perhaps disorientation is the intended effect. But let's read a kaleidoscopic themed piece!