''Folly''
To No Avail
''To No Avail ''
K. Scott Smith - December 2011
Oracle of shadows
Illuminate this heart
These bones
Animate this season without name
Recolections of standing quietly in the bathroom
smiling in the mirror
(getting ready for 'work'.)*
The return of winds,
Changing courses,Constellations
The heavy yoke of magnetic waves
The turning of a thousand keys
Life living itself.
2.A boy finds two wooden sticks
he fashions them in to a crusifix.
His own crusade
a private march.
3.voices singing in the silence
Words I cannot understand
A strange tounge.
Echanted, I arrise.
I soar!
I have been relentless in my transgressions
I seek not forgivness.
I am just wandering about
on Pages and in Ink.
4.Something meant to be isnt necessarily meant to last.
Cast in Iron will
Razorsharp wits
I long to be among men who live by greater myths.
5.So I wrote the words and left it at that.
6.Wrapped up in coats, sweaters,
sneakers and scaves (part your hair).
Cross a bridge,
Start a fire.
Dont get so angry
Someone is going to take over
can you do better?
Pour your hearts into little pots
let them rot and ruin in the sun.
7.Kingdom of grass
Laid in ruinslaid to waist
Lay the dead in rows in the grass.
Here in the ranks of afternoon breezes
Warm and pleasant
I am like a busy marketplace
A citadel.
I will lead a lost cause
Down a long road
For no reason at all
8.Heres an arrow, use it!
The scar will be my prize!
The grave my heirloom
Theres Fate, pushing you aside
Pushing me aside.
9.My confession did nothing for my cause
How foolish of me to bare myself in such a way.
Always too late.
Too little,Too late.
What will come will come to the fool who waits.
10,places in the city to hide
to cause a scene,
to drink, to be murdered.
I stay awake or sleep all day
I don't remember I cannot recall.
11.Quiet comes through the hole in the fences.
So far so good then the room begins to spin!
12.The city lights once seemed so bright
I walked spellbound into apartments and parking lots.
Anywhere, really.
I went wherever I wanted.
Oh, how the city and I change.
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