Domesticity

 

Tomorrows and all our next days pass

clipped to a paper clip.

Our hunting’s pale

begins our nines and ends our fives

to bring home no killed meat, no pure grained grain

 

Tomorrow’s tedium would not look back

to glance a knowing eye on yesterday,

he has clown’s pride has he

wills no pain

knows no embarrassment,

sunup’s only boredom’s child

 

But night he dances gas lit moon contempt on tinsel days to revive the stunted stunt of daylight dreams

 

Our playtime, night time, never pass away

Copyright Graeme Murphy 2000-2021 

 

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Fitzroy 1993