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Time knows

Posted on 31/10/2020 by emjay

I wrote a poem once

airing and burying

secrets and shame.

A poet engaged with me

about his job in waste management.

He had some good points.

 

I wrote a poem once

about a tragedy and loss of life.

Later the death toll went up

and my poem got better.

Not because of the greater tragedy

but because the title was niftier.

A cutesy zed on the salon

called Cutz.

 

I wrote a poem once.

It feels rather misogynistic now.

I’m sure I had my reasons.

 

I wrote a poem once

the reflection of a clock

in a window out to darkness

backwards going.

My lecturer.

Precision Germanic.

 

I wrote a poem once.

I was desperately broken and lost.

Its meaning was lost on everyone

who found their own.

Quantum tunnelling though my pile of shit.

Unpredictably better on the other side

than I’d intended, or am deliberately capable of.

A stopped clock right

twice a day.

 

Then there was that other poem.

The poem I didn’t write.

I didn’t didn’t write it once.

I didn’t write it over and over again.

How do you put a date on when you didn’t write something

about something someone says didn’t happen?

 

The German Instrument of Surrender was backdated,

and time knows.

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3 thoughts on “Time knows”

  1. Dean English Dean English says:
    19/11/2020 at 6:20 am

    The German references make me think of the research into what was being called. ‘The Nazi Bell’. Any correspondence to that?

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    1. emjay emjay says:
      19/11/2020 at 7:33 am

      It doesn’t – but looks like a fun rabbit hole to explore some time 🙂

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  2. Sommer Cullingford Sommer Cullingford says:
    31/10/2020 at 3:15 pm

    I really like the use of refrain here, I am currently exploring this devise in a poem of my own, and it’s enjoyable to see it employed here effectively.

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