it's in the ways

when they disappear
they're all gone
gone with the wind
fledgling in a bowl
when the gift catches fire
there is no more
laughter in abundance
the news gone blind
blind with nothing left to do
gone around the campfire
watching what to do
a blind mess walking through
a surgeon's hat a messy coffin
trap doors open and shut
wandering what to do
a tree hides a ghost shivers
blind see deaf hear
wandering what to do
a grassy hat a toad a steer
passing over
what's wrong right between
a featherbed catches the worm
the rest are watching and praying
the bed looks comfortable
hiding a peculiar way
sun shines moon gathers dust
it's not in the telling
it's in the ways

denis streeter    2/25/21

where it goes

what is needed no more
a cast an olive an altar
state of being coincide
a beef a mule a fool
hiding behind the jester
open wide follow inside
jackrabbit lantern stew
follow inside you
open the door and follow some more
it's not that it will.  it will
falter your horizons
testing doors that bathroom you
giving no asides
a pauper a pen a fool
live beside you
living on you
no flea for portable
just living on time
an order for living
spinner snap order that
a paper comes handy
merry go round 
as luck would have it
in jester form
roundabout the floor rides
is it beer or booze
float the paper cake
cut from magazines
pulp for filling
sawdust for your mind
it's not so easy when you're joking
the joke disappears
what did you say
don't say that.  it's not funny
that's okay, it's out of my mind
until some trick becomes fey
try another word will you
but words are hard to come by
most often misunderstood
and on the way down it's sleep
sometimes better that way
and then there's dreaming

denis streeter    2/6/21