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Recording the sadness

Recording the sadness

Sadness is stuck in my mind like seaweed in a motorboat motor.

My focus dwells on the plastic debris overload.

My eyes move from person to person, considering their tops and bottoms. Hairstyles and shoes. Bags and accessories.

And I feel despair at the too muchness. Meaning falls out like a tooth.

No control. Act of nature.

And I get busy trying to make.

Build it up in a ramshackle way. Brick here, board there, blue  gun here, nail there.

She wept at the sight of bloodshed

She felt as though she had been smacked on the head with a board.

Suddenly embarrassed about her years on unveiled emotion.

She could never see her way to be at ease with pleasure knowing that many suffered because of the greed and hatred of a few men and women with a lot of economic persuasive power.

She wept at the sight of bloodshed as if it was a personal assault.