...is what he said to me when
I had the temerity to throw my
tiny weight in behind one who
to him was not the thing to
bring down the clown, that is
Killary. Months after, dust settled
and he says he's unhappy to have
missed me when I got my things --
he'd wanted to talk. But I'm left
puzzling out how I've moved
exac nowhere and changed nothing
about my number -- how hard
was I to reach for this speech
he'd wanted to speak ... trippingly,
as they say, off the tongue. His
doctoring, what he came to because
he couldn't do the calculus to be
engineering, what is proof anywho
of his superiority-ing, has me
wondering: who is it needs curing?
— joystjohn
I had the temerity to throw my
tiny weight in behind one who
to him was not the thing to
bring down the clown, that is
Killary. Months after, dust settled
and he says he's unhappy to have
missed me when I got my things --
he'd wanted to talk. But I'm left
puzzling out how I've moved
exac nowhere and changed nothing
about my number -- how hard
was I to reach for this speech
he'd wanted to speak ... trippingly,
as they say, off the tongue. His
doctoring, what he came to because
he couldn't do the calculus to be
engineering, what is proof anywho
of his superiority-ing, has me
wondering: who is it needs curing?
— joystjohn
I am enjoying some of the internal rhymes, and noted the casual "anywho." I'm not going to try to match this poem up with your reality, because I can't. It seems familiar, though, something I should know, but then again, it doesn't. (The "trippingly" is from Hamlet, I think.) (Macoff)
ReplyDeleteLike this very much. His expression that he wanted to talk, and her understanding he only wanted to give a speech as one of the players in Hamlet, trippingly off the tongue. His move is performative and you paint that so clearly! It is clear who needs curing.
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