Kit Kelen #729 - I count myself among them

729

I count myself among them

all these people desperate

to be saved from themselves

desperate to transcend

to be beyond beside themselves

with gods and demons

pills, good angels

exercise, the magic diet

helpful books and shopping - just the act of it

or work - for goodness sake

to diss the body too

in favour of abstract thinner-than-air

such as forever rumoured

poem of the morning -

that will get you off the hook

who knows of what they are capable?

and here they are with all there is

there cannot be more wonders

these are the monsters years have imagined

and were they to pause a moment

each would hear music of the clock that keeps them

that they keep

would know the preciousness of time

the mechanism

and their own running down