Thursday, March 25, 2010

10 Minute Prompt: Write without using punctuation

In the end there is only more of the same which continues on to the next
and leaves us breathless in its relentless flow into new
this life excites and enthralls me into awareness of my own shelf-life
both sad and satisfying happy to know the cycle of you
then you then you
then out
then me
we merry go round each other into the next room
waltz into the outside where wind wipes off the grime of travel
and rain removes the hairspray and makeup of putting on our daily lives
in ordinary actions
filing paper making coffee stapling stacks of letters carrying orders
for objects which mean nothing to me
except a job to be done from which I come home to you
and we dance to dinner
then bow and curtsy our intention to stay hand in hand
in quiet space unmoved by obligations that yell at us from outside
until it is time again to warm our hands on mugs of tea
and smooth our brows on sleeves of work shirts clean and starched
against a wrinkling world that pulls us out
and out
and out

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