Monday, 10 April 2017

Open-Minded Reality



So here we are, its the first day of the New Year, 
42 degrees in the shade on the patio deck - and 
th’ sun’s spraying an equivalent of th’ necessary 
millions of kilojoules to wreck our world; - a few 
clouds are tacitly staying away from any form of 
confrontation - not that they’d stand a chance in 
the circumstance - and we’re wearing it as it is; 
the main arena’s routine activities disappeared  

Vis-à-vis the heat - evaporated I guess - it isn’t 
what we see daily, even the animal noises have 
quietened below a monotony of redolent bellow 
we’re used too - ditto, too, is the case of birdlife 
who’d made their presence an inescapable and 
obvious consequence of birdseed we feed ‘em 

So it’s too hot to be normal in any sense which 
didn’t need some sort of air conditioning t’ vent 
the excess heat somewhere else - although its 
an idiomatic idea less the gravity of who’s beat 
you’d be shovelling it off into; - out here there’s 
no escaping the open-minded reality … 
© 1 January 2017, I. D. Carswell 

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