Week 40 - Swirling Sea

Another short form piece that distils madness into more madness. How does anyone write poetry without feeling like a bit of an ass?


Swirling Sea

 

In a plastic shop, with a brain now unhinged,

Stricken by hunger and broken by reams,

Of information come tumbling like packets of string.

 

Sometimes when I stop, I wait to catch up.

It’s a bitch of a time, running circles on spot,

Watching someone ahead who’s fallen to flop.

 

So I stop and stick quick, and inhale noodled plastic,

Feeling the taste of salt and cool splashback.

Waving my arms, head just above static.

 

For the world swirls in a sea, whether blue I’ve forgot

And for that we are grateful

But for that we are lost.

 

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Words copyright Matt Vesely. Image copyright David Keen.