Under Windsor Bridge, 1912, by Adolphe Valette
MAG 131
JUST JUMP
or
Be Oblivious to Oblivion
DON'T DO IT
DON'T PLUMMET FROM THE BRIDGE
QUITE YET
CUBISM WANTS TO BE INVENTED
TO GIVE YOU MORE DIMENSIONS
TO YOUR FLAT LINE LIFE
AS YOU SEE IT
YOU'VE EXPLORED
TOUCHED ONLY THE SURFACE
OF THE RAGING
BRACKISH DEPTHS
THE SWIRLING CRUEL CURLS OF ENDLESS EDDIES
'ROUND AND 'ROUND YOUR TWISTED WORLD
HEAR THE RUSH OF THAMES
LISTEN TO THE DROWNED
CUT DOWN IN THEIR PRIME
TO SWIRL IN THIS WHIRLPOOL OF
THE QUICK AND THE DEAD
GONE BEFORE
YOU TRIED TO HOLD ONTO
SOME FALSE HOPE
TRIED TO SWALLOW THE WHOLE TRUTH
IS IT NOT TIME?
UNTIL YOUR TIME
YOU'RE
NOT READY TO DEPART
CAN'T YOU WAIT A MOMENT
STAY SUSPENDED A SECOND
IT'S YOUR DIME, YOUR TIME
ALTHOUGH IT
LOOKS AS THOUGH
YOU'VE ALREADY LEPT
A THOUSAND TIMES BEFORE, MAYBE MORE
FROM THIS ENDLESS BRIDGE
YOU STAND IN
THE GAP
BEFORE YOU
PLUNGE FULL THROTTLE
INTO THE LIGHT
OF THE GONE-BEFORE IMMORTALS
YOU CAN CONSIDER YOURSELF LUCKY
VICTORIOUS ALMOST
YOUR BELLY SWOLLEN
FULL OF LAST NIGHT'S
BANGERS AND MASH
ARTFUL
WAIT UNTIL
YOUR EYES SEE THE
ENDLESSNESS OF
DAYS
SOON MY PRETTY
PEER OVER THE EDGE BRIEFLY TO SEE
A THOUSAND SHIMMERING STARS
TRANSGRESS
UPON YOUR SOUL
A FORM IN THE SHADOW
THE BODY HAS
A RIGHT TO EXIST
TEMPORATANEOUSLY
AT LEAST
THIS SULTRY NIGHT
IMBUED WITH SEA'S SALT
MIGHTY
IMPENTETRATABLE SHADOW
FROM THE EARLY RAYS
FRAMES YOUR FORM
LIKE A STREET LAMP
ON A FOGGY MORN
CLOAKS YOUR IMAGE
WITH SUBDUED LIGHTING
WAIT UPON
HOWARD'S
very END
WHEN
YOU finally UNITE
WITH THE INFINITE
THEN YOU
CAN
JUST
JUMP
into
the abyss of INFINITY
AND BE OBLIVIOUS
TO oblivion
Chiccoreal
Thanks Tess Kincaid for this useful and museful mag. There is much more here; ~http://magpietales.blogspot.ca/
powerful. reminds me of hamlet.
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nice...once you are there...oblivion def does not matter...smiles....
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