Hard to figure out how much time has passed
since last I wondered how little time goes
in a straight line not even a circuit
could explain the serpentine byways I
represented as myself depicting
every drift as meaningful substances
substrata of earth undiscovered by
digging even deeper than possible
probably the other side will appear
as upside down as frames of reference
tilted slightly askew astride the wall
who knows what time is or the difference
between being born in time and lasting
forever or at least everlasting
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FebPoWriMo 5
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FebPoWriMo 4
A day of errands approaching normal
except for the people who refuse to
somehow still wearing masks in Target is
anathema to participating
in a civilized society why
did some of us decide keeping distance
was a bad idea I for one don’t
mind never sharing space with anyone
ever again no one wants to see that
spittle of the mind dripping without pause
open to the external elements
bad ideas made worse by their speaking
wish there could be an endgame in our sights
if you are still there please turn out the lights
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FebPoWriMo 3
Spent a good portion of the evening shocked
at the passage of time namely how much
has passed within our lifetime unnoticed
it must be that past present and future
all happen at once how else to explain
the ennui of your twenties growing up
to be a teenager at the same age
as you were two thirds of your life ago
writing lyrics in your bedroom without
thinking of life insurance benefits
or where you should situate all the stuff
accumulated in a previous
phase you think might be useful as you try
to pass on what it means to be alive
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FebPoWriMo 2
A day made
entirely of twos
falls
on a Wednesday
until the next one
a few weeks
from now
in the meantime
numbers still
have meaning
and nothing counts
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FebPoWriMo 1
Listened to someone
explain supply and demand
on the radio
for a few minutes
while I avoided drivers
who had no clue which
lane they wanted to be in
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JanPoWriMo 31
It wouldn’t surprise me
at this point if the whole
thing was just left like
a school project book
on a public library shelf
everyone wants to read
and now the waiting list
will take millennia to get
through by which time
the sequel about the closet
that eats jackets will be
the story we inhabit
while the original work
keeps circulating and
we never get to the end
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JanPoWriMo 30
Tonight my hope is that
the transformation from
rehearsing listless in the basement
to performing active and
present yet distanced
disturbance of the peace
up on the roof is not only
experienced by the passers by
most if not all of whom
have passed like the music away
wondering where on earth
that sound is coming from
and how fortunate we are
to be sharing the same space
on an ordinary gray lunchtime
inhabited suddenly by extraordinary
songs too short to remember
never to be repeated except
once more for good measure
back to where we now belong
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JanPoWriMo 28
The word of the day
they are banning books again
as they always have
when they think they can
pretty easy way to start
a good reading list
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JanPoWriMo 27
It’s so cold outside
I fell asleep on the couch
before the end of the show
every inch of skin
exposed to the elements
cracks open a scar
you didn’t know would
bleed quite as profusely while
washing your hands for
the seventeenth time
counting twenty seconds lasts
as long as it should
Joshua Keiter 