Damian Garside

RIDE

found myself in a Wes Anderson world
my house full of things in
bright pastel colours
I bought on line

felt I needed
a radical change of
landscape and how
that landscape insists
that I best deport myself

so
   said a charm
of transformation
   asking for a science
fiction horror scenario
scripted by HP Lovecraft,
artwork
    by HR Giger

and waited to die of
sheer fear
or survive to enjoy
the ride

I have copies
occur
in many different forms

have more than three
dimensions

I write write write write
if only to prove
that I myself
am an inscription

catch my drift
get my gist
go with my flow

              even as
a greater flow, deeper drift
quintessential gist
                      is what
life
    has me follow
     dictates here

this is what I grasp
all that I have grasped
from that recitation

practically everything I need
to write, and learn, and be.