IN PARENTHESIS

long division
square root
(stick night
black night
in parenthesis

before you take the liberty
to photon bombard it)

I would write
you up
if you were
worth the trouble
let you
take me in
your arms
and multiply me

all your chromosomes
gotten into the habit
or reading
me like a book

backwards forwards
straight line, arabesque,
turning
your story my story
into a flip thru
pop up
illustrated manuscript

shaving away those
bad dreams, wonky genes,
picking and choosing
choice bits
from my D

A spiral

not all behind
the scenes
the clothes
the blinds the curtains

so
seemingly old inert,
entropic, horribly
outworn
and outmoded

see how fresh how suddenly
green
when you edit, splice
cut through
sheath
down to essential fibre

highest factor lowest
common denominator

blend with which
life can perhaps do something

Published by Damian Garside