Text Copyright Clyde Collins 2016
On The Edge
of
Her Grounds
by
Rawclyde
!
I don't know how
I got inside her mind
But here I am
~
Thorns everywhere
Decaying logs
Too much heat
~
The grounds
In this particular zone
Of her horizonless psych
Are pillaged by storm
Untilled & unfulfilled
~
The pathway to her office
In this steaming sector
Is deliberately
Unsafe & unwilling
~
Finally
After days of slipping & tripping
I knock on Madam Beloved's office door
It begins spinning in front of me
~
Undeterred
Standing in a lake of my own
Swirling sweat
I knock again
~
Uncannily
Like a Chinese puzzle
the door slowly unlocks
There she sits behind her desk
Peering down the cyber highway
Her fingers delicately playing with
One of her earlobes
~
I must say
Her office begs a meticulous description
But describing the ceiling will do
Seeing as it is a live fully-endowed
Upside down
Prairie dog town
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~
"You're coffee, Madam"
I announce &
Set the silver platter on her desk
"Thank you, Rawclyde!"
She replies
Her delicate nostrils so
High in the air
I cannot help but admire
How clean they are &
Her nose
So beautiful
No wonder I love!
I love!
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"You may sit"
Says She
"After all we're equals"
She rolls her eyeballs
& picks up
Off the silver platter
Nex' the coffee pot
My plan to serve a catered luncheon
For her and her friends
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~
The spinning starts up again
When it stops I am upside down
The prairie dog town is right side up
Little animals chasing around
Our bispectacled heroine has a big bongo 'tween her knees
And the beat begins
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I am a tumble
A somersaulting yo-yo
Possessed by
Drum Diva
Who slowly slowly increases
Drum Drama
'Til all is a frenzy
~
I am
Left flat on my back
Forever to be her property
The bandit babe of my soul stands over me
Laughing
Like a parade of women
Marching across my ragged face
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~
I am loyal
I am enslaved
Her metaphor-crystalized
Philadelphia-splattered &
Re-spiritualized
Senior citizen
Butler
Up & bungling in
A New Dawn
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~
And I am
Haunted
By the shadowy muse
Eerily standing behind Ms. Beloved with
A jealous hand on her shoulder
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"See you later, butler"
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