April 24, 2012

An Open Letter to Jane

Dear Jane,
The hand that feeds the animals has retreated back into ones’ heavenly abode.  
I want to be a scientist, so one day I can swim in the tides of science and immerse my head deep within the universal mysteries swirling around each and every one of us each and every moment of each and every day.
I just don’t get it, I can’t understand, my mind won’t comprehend, the time that I’ve been given is a mystery to my soul because at once I must go walkin’ down a long and lonesome road dirt and gravel beneath my feet stomp my shoes to some old ragged beat that played on a dime store radio in a forgotten town with ma and pop sittin' on rockin' chairs gamin' chess and twirlin hairs sippin' on juice and smokin’ lucky strikes lit from the fire they been stokin’ since six in the mornin’ of yesterday with embedded embers and ashes stray like a fat cat hot trottin' on a trail of some mice and their family’s tale told to the dozens of spectators at the rally but no one won the raffle cause it was a dud and the ballot boxes were filled with the batter that composes the politician’s infinite banter stemming from a buncha undulating issues of a life worth not living and a death left unascending from an unbending truth abandoned to rummage through all the lies and spend quality time without the spies in the company of a queen and a prince that spreads his wings and darkness shrouds the evenings of tomorrow  and the land once loved now lost in veiled grief was taken to her knees and slaughtered for her fine fleece.

Live on sheep; and live on within the body of your foe.

Love,
Dick