"A line from Charlie Watts," "awestruck / by a / super blood moon," and "Trapeze Act"
A line from Charlie Watts
Start at the top of the list
& work your way down.
Social opportunities are
increasingly circumscribed.
Your brain processes a
conversation & finds that,
whatever was said, you
didn't hear it that way. What
else is going on around
you? Try playing a different
audio file. Remember, we
are not alone in this world.
R.I.P.
awestruck / by a / super blood moon
The signal strength of
the patient's perception
of his inner self sucks. That's
a clinical expression—take it
to mean that his concept
"false-self" is probably
not aligned with the
vertical centerline of
the business communities
of Southern California
but with the distal end of a
dog. If not that then it's
because he wears high heels
& tries to save a few bucks
here & there on his power bill.
Trapeze Act
So maybe there
does come a time
when everybody freezes
their painted face
in place & goes
scurrying big-
footed off to the
showground to
find the circus
of their desires.
Mark Young was born in Aotearoa / New Zealand but now lives in a small town in North Queensland in Australia. He is the author of more than sixty books, the most recent of which are with the slow-paced turtle replaced by a fast fish, published by Sandy Press in May, 2023, & a free downloadable chapbook of visuals & poems, Mercator Projected, published by Half Day Moon Press in August 2023. Mark recommends the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.