{"id":2428,"date":"2019-10-16T16:21:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T16:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/?p=2428"},"modified":"2019-10-16T21:35:53","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T21:35:53","slug":"4-3-4-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/2019\/10\/16\/4-3-4-4\/","title":{"rendered":"4\/3\/4 (#4)"},"content":{"rendered":"

yet another
\ncollection
\nof these poems<\/em><\/p>\n

that aren’t really
\npoems at
\nall, now, are they<\/em><\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#79: spite, obduracy<\/strong><\/p>\n

the whole point of
\nthis is that
\nit annoys you<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#80: a failure of words<\/strong><\/p>\n

there is not a
\nclear way to
\nsay this at all<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#81: on pens #1<\/strong><\/p>\n

i don’t like this
\npen but its
\nall i have left<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#82: on pens #2<\/strong><\/p>\n

ink doesn’t flow
\ncorrectly
\nacross the page<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#83: on pens #3<\/strong><\/p>\n

scratching away
\nthe paper
\neach word a scar<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#84: on pens #4<\/strong><\/p>\n

left the lid off
\nink’s gone dry
\npen thrown in bin<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#85: sufficiently advanced self-awareness is indistinguishable from self-pity<\/strong><\/p>\n

i do not like
\nwho i am
\neven slightly<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#86: on waking #3<\/strong><\/p>\n

my brain has shrunk
\nlike a voles
\nin midwinter<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#87: lost in a dream (variation #1)<\/strong><\/p>\n

lost in a dream
\nof a life
\nhazy, drifting<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#88: lost in a dream (variation #2)<\/strong><\/p>\n

lost in a dream
\nof my own
\nconstant failings<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#89: lost in a dream (variation #3)<\/strong><\/p>\n

lost in a dream
\nof a world
\nunrecognised<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#90: bird poem #1<\/strong><\/p>\n

seven egrets
\nin a row
\nstill as statues<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#91: bird poem #2<\/strong><\/p>\n

a thousand ducks
\nbraced against
\nthe winter wind<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#92: bird poem #3<\/strong><\/p>\n

crow flying off
\nholding an
\negg in its beak<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#93: bird poem #4<\/strong><\/p>\n

the cormorant
\ndives below
\ngulls hover above<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#94: bird poem #5<\/strong><\/p>\n

a swan’s feather
\nfloating past
\ncaught in the wind<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#95: the coming end of the bird poem cycle<\/strong><\/p>\n

cat sauntering
\nacross road
\nover the fence<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#96: happiness<\/strong><\/p>\n

road black with rain
\nheavy boots
\njoy of puddles<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#97:<\/strong><\/p>\n

the puddle fits
\nperfectly
\nin its own hole<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#98: despair #1<\/strong><\/p>\n

made the mistake
\nof reading
\ntwitter today<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#99: despair #2<\/strong><\/p>\n

some people seem
\nto really
\nwant civil war<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#100: waiting for the doors #1<\/strong><\/p>\n

phone-lit faces
\npunctuate
\nthe snaking queue<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#101: waiting for the doors #2<\/strong><\/p>\n

cigarette smoke
\nmatching breath
\nbring your own fog<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#102: the end of the process<\/strong><\/p>\n

this little box
\nis full now
\nof written words<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#103: a lifetime of regrets<\/strong><\/p>\n

so many words
\ni shouldn’t
\never have said<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

#104: <\/strong><\/p>\n

a perfect world
\nas silent
\nand still as snow<\/p>\n

___________<\/p>\n

Notes:<\/p>\n

1. Written in September and October 2019<\/em>
\n2. The three previous collections of 4\/3\/4 poems can be found here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a><\/em>
\n3. Bird poem #3 was actually based on a misidentification<\/em>
\n4. And it was a walnut in the crow’s beak<\/em>
\n5. rather than an egg<\/em>
\n6. I disocvered this yesterday, when a crow dropped a walnut on the road in front of me<\/em>
\n7. from it’s perch on the roof of the house<\/em>
\n8. trying to crack it<\/em>
\n9. but failing.<\/em>
\n10. But then I noticed that the whole road was littered with walnut shell shrapnel<\/em>
\n11. pleasing proof of their eventual success<\/em><\/p>\n__________<\/br>

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