Open To Interpretation
Really Really
Anchored, the night swells phosphor
And slap slap the hull,
I rest by the rail and thought talk,
Commensurate with the fish:
'We're a crew of romantic orphans,'
'You know?',
'And the navigators interpreting'
'The Black Deck'
'Haven't a clue where we're going.'
'Hard to tell Captain,'
'We're really really lost,'
'Her Black Ship on a course'
'To nowhere in particular'
'However really really she's assured.'
Choose
They have their palaces,
And a busy lot with the upkeep.
I have all the time in the world.
So, which do you prefer,
To rattle about those many roomed mansions,
Or be still with me
On these trailside benches overlooking
Sunrise to sunset mountain and ocean?
Truer True
Ah well yeah
Hereabout has always been
Phonier than phony,
So truer than true.
Good and Bad Bad and Good
I'm too good to be bad,
Too bad to be good!
And you, so lovely,
And you?
Pawn
The Black Ship is in pawn
To the dour black suits,
So treasures we bring
From pillaging to your palms.
Concertina
Pip with his concertina
Entertains us,
Yours and your siblings' steps
Find his rhythms.
Oh, where would we be
Without his concertina?
Where would Pip be?
Quiet, below the black deck peeling potatoes?
Where I would be
Absent you.
Parrots Come
Oh, the parrots came back!
And dislodged the gulls and ravens from the neon rigging
With their riotous color
And raucous talk!
Panics
Time was a pocket knife was standard issue,
Now it's a panic,
But new issued have been these handy black mirrors in our pockets...
We pull them out
And...
Reflect!
A real panic!
Parrots Go
Oh,
The parrots left,
So short a visit,
As usual,
And the gulls and ravens back,
With their usual,
And we back bent over the black deck,
Doing the usual.
Schrodinger's Cat
Just open the damn box
And leave a comment
If I'm dead or alive!
The Black Mirrors
Mirrors mirrors
On the walls
Whose is the fairest
Of them all?!
Making Me
I look in these black mirrors
And I'm not even sure it's even me there.
Then again, before,
I wasn't sure either,
But at least then on the other side
There wasn't someone making me!
Deal Queequeg!
Deal Queequeg!
Just deal the black cards...
I feel lucky...
And wipe that hungry smirk
Off your tattooed face!
DolphinWords
Notes: Really Really...'nowhere in particular' references Mr. Toad's Wild Ride cartoon!...don't like to use 'howevers', but there it is...Choose, GoodBadBadGood, Truer Than True...these have all been rattling around in my head for years, decades!...Panics...just a joke...a lot of these are jokes with a rhyme or two...Concertina...haven't checked yet...picturing the little squeeze box in Kirk Douglas' hands...'I've a whale of a tale to tell you lads..."....Parrots Come Parrots Go...Parrots in the Palm trees outside while writing...they always visit, passing through...Schrodinger's Cat...likely lifted...The Black Mirrors...picturing myself at Target or Best Buy media departments, and such, as in Making Me...another joke...Deal Queequeg!...ral!...oh, had it right, have to get a concertina, and learn that one song (Douglas has guitar...crew member the concertina!!)...it's early, I could do more today!...ral...
:)
DavidDavid
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