"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

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.

 

Edited for Unlikely by Jonathan Penton, Editor-in-Chief
Last revised on Wednesday, March 9, 2022 - 22:08