Be There To See

You’d get the impression we were well ahead; Her 

Grace furnished with two apples, kookaburras fed; 

the mobs grown to five, but they don’t stay around 

demanding food like they used to - & I, with coffee 

in hand, can reflect a 6am rising isn’t too stressful 

Then you earn discrete effects by feeling a part of 

dawn’s launching process - distractions disappear, 

cold hands still reflect that morning airs clean and 

cool, but activity around us is like the sun’s rising, 

and there they are, all finding al fresco breakfasts 

My desire to be ‘advised’ on world events had the 

ABC early morning show on air; to say least, zany,

and presenter Craig Zonca fits the scene in manic 

efficacy; well last night was a full-moon - which my 

canine pal Podge reminded me of for some hours 

Thus Today had irrepressible foretastes of events 

being either part of actuality, or pretence & hence 

a drippy nose suggests the latter shouldn’t qualify - 

and we ambivalently drift into Friday, 12th of May, 

with the reasoning being, need to be there to see 

© 12 May 2017, I. D. Carswell