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Being There

from Five Ounce Mouth by Chauncey Gardener

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Some confused dudes blew a fuse and ruined the tour.
Use skewers, lose fewer shrooms on the barbecuer.
Stones are never blue; they stay red just like a ruby jeweler.
Juicy grains will make ya cough if you can’t handle the Dewar’s.

Often in my office, no scoffin or closed-off thinking.
Loftin’ up an offer softer than an author's
brush when the ink’s dry.
Like a coffin's not, the door's always open, a far cry
from a glass container, but ain't it ajar, guy?
A tall grind, or do they call it grand-e?
A royal size of chocolate or a small bite of candy.
Acting grander than a plan from pinky and the brain.
Now the water main has got a kink, I think oughta rain.

So who’s got a mop?
Grab a rag and get to soppin;
soak it up across the lot
then work your way back again.
Vacuumin’ with acumen,
got the strength of a stack a’ men.
Sweepin’ up the best of em,
beat the test by factors of ten, my friend.

The garden man, hardened by the prickly plants;
callouses so set you’d be he fret the guitar with his whole damn hand.
Left your hide scarred and tanned,
thefted like a bargain brand,
take a glad candle waft before you grab the Zoloft.

Does the robin stress about whose nest is best
or passing its next test or when its wings will rest?
Or simply focus on the seeds that it needs,
while the life that it leads
watches one moment bleed into the next.
No historical text or futuristic plans,
just where it should land, and on which branch to stand.
Find a worm to catch as the baby birds squirm and hatch,
before you know it, they’ll be out tryin’ to earn they scratch.

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from Five Ounce Mouth, released February 25, 2015
"Polarity" by Exactly Kevin Shaklee
from Snugglr (2011)

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