Saturday, 4 August 2018

Depressed



Not that I invited it - but the challenge said you’re 
depressed: nothing vengeful, just tacit how about 
explaining it reckoning at its back, suggesting I’d 
be impressed by all this reputedly, down-to-Earth 
erudition; well, I wasn’t, but I couldn’t defend that 
space I’d been isolated in either; when there’s in- 
calculable disincentive pending in standing up to 
a comment intended to get the ball rolling again -

it’s better to be silent until the ‘new rules of play’ 
are explained in a way which isn’t a compromise 
on whose sanity’s forsaken; so I say, as if its true 
wisdom o’ a latter-day sage, whose asking’s this
the silence lends me visions I’ve yet to see when 
I’ll be an arbiter of such depressing articulation 
© 1 June 2018, I. D. Carswell 

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