PERMANENTLY INTROVERTED INTERLUDE

We will
dance
on
pinpricks
drawing pins
and
blu tak

We will sell
TS Eliot imitation mugs
to the
uninitiated

We will embrace
space babies
with their
hazy recollections
of
sun sparkled revels
on unfathomable balconies

We will delight
in the mundane and
accompany irritable ions
out into the space
between
what we never were
and what we never could be

We will
swallow
whole continents,
go forward into the
past,
take NO
for an answer,
we will rarely
take notes

Dancing
dancing
dancing
we will sellotape
our wills
to the walls
and make
useless demands
underneath
bubble-wrap skies

We will
never be part
of the scenery
or consider
a walk-on
part,
our metropolitan
sign language
will be the height of
ambiguity

We will only ever
involve ourselves
in unnecessary details
and in that way
we will
blunder
towards
something greater
than defeat
something vaster
than failure

We will only ever be
instant revelation
and lessons learned,
our coughs
will be like laughs,
our in-your-facedness
will seem natural and
unpretentious

We will take
everything
literally,
preserve impossible
thoughts,
wash the sea
out of the sand

We will stalk
the grey horizons,
make merry
in a nest of needles,
do everything
but
what is expected
of us

we will sneak between
the
interminable
and the
unenchanted
we will
we will
we will
dance
on!