How many times does one old woman
dried without us watching 
reprimand herself for missing one card in solitaire?
How many times was there a mistake,
and I lost your slate commandments,
if only temporarily. Tumors arily
floating in the family--thats what you get for
living on a farm and milking goats.
Did you forget the city silks and our walks
and you can get it powdered at the Nature store
anyway.
 
but we are only walking
 
How many times does one standard A
substitute product B for experience C?
I came to the sea
Arrow like Arrowby but I will not
be the salt that dis
solves, I will
be sand Caer of Carthemanshire
of Ceredigion
dig me in
there is no sand here but
we shift in stones round from shifting
the first drop black on the dusky slate
and I am firm in my re
solve.
 
but we are only walking
We pick up these broken things:
the cardigan of an old woman who
shattered her own self esteem
by giving up on solitaire of her own free
 
I am collecting sea
glass for the boy I
 
dried without us watching
 
There are so many stars
in the sand at night
and we are draped over them
like cardigans and seaweed, or
the first drop black on the dusky slate
but we are only walking
 
The gannets will come in the morning:
come, my friends.
You have no one but yourself to learn to walk from
so walk without consideration.
The rest of us will be waiting at the ice cream stand,
you can get a double cone of turkish delight soft serve,
I have only seen it in Wales. It is common.
the first drop black on the dusky slate
There is just one simple thing which you must do
but we are only walking
 
Without instruction or identification
please forget the cards
please forget her, or the tunnel you dug,
dried without us watching
(it is always some kind of Her with everyone it seems these days)
 
there is no reason to pace
                      you just walk and the rocks slide
        but you are still standing round grey and you
and we fall against the wall for this,
"everyone and I stopped breathing"
but we are only walking
and ACTION we are not thinking but we are doing
we are only keeping balance on the stones
there isnt a big emptiness really, you only were just looking
at something outside of your self for too long
    wax paper in your fingers,
 the stones under your feet,
the first drop black on the dusky slate
the rain, bwrw glaw, one hundred miles away that you will see slanting down
if only you will bother to get up that hilltop to the left,
the mossy one.
dried without us watching
 
Please, I am begging you now,
but we are only walking
dont get into that thing again
where everything is empty because of blah blah blah
 
This is not for You but for everyone.
If you are happy everyone
If you can see the rain,
the first drop black on the dusky slate
And a dry footprint where you stood
 
Billie Holiday had is all wrong
There is plenty and it is even just slate
and I would bring you some if things could really be transmuted
it will be exciting because it is foreign
but thats only an excuse for adoring it.
 
but we are only walking
the first drop black on the dusky slate
dried without us watching
 
 

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