The Text (and The Subtext) by flot

The Text (and The Subtext)

The text got caught

Glancing at the subtext

Feeling self referential and

Not the slightest bit deferred

The numbers colored the picture purple and

When a pair of paragraphs

Made a couple pie charts

The dessert was just and deserving

Of a polite payback or

Several fine flavors of favors

Everything delivered in a kitchen sink or

How could I be more succinct

Wrapping up the case and

The leftover taste

Complaints will be tossed away

Constraints only hold the fallow fields and

The rest will grow

Regardless of the storms and drains and

The worms in the gutters

The next trance is trancing

As the new next keeps dancing

All night

Halfway into the day

Self assured completely paid off

I can see the rhythm

From across the room

Escaping the speaker’s constraints

Charting off course

A bunch of tramps and ampersands

Traipsing across the sand

Trading relief for kindness

One deed at a time

Adding up to the kind

Of sign that symbolizes

A direction

A weather vane or

A guess of heads or tails

The coin is flipping through the air

Call it before it lands

The music plays either way

Major notes or minors

Whatever notes will get us through

Another moment

Another breath

Another song

Another gone and went

Send me a sign!

Please send me a sign!

flot

5.19.2012