Clang Clank

CLANG
Tired tires, silver rims, I hear the clang of metal some
Stylish somewhere and some plain somewhere, you are
Indifferent because you have no idea what I mean,
Laceration cuts at flesh, perhaps the wolves got into it.
Texture of wood, the grain, texture of anything, music,
Stylistic choices the writer makes, it may not matter,
Unfailingly the person sees this one great thing as a
Locksmith sees the lock to be undone or keys fashioned.

CLANK
Superannuated stages of life, we wonder how to plan,
Handrails could be installed, what else?  A door here,
Inured to the benefit, who gets all this, who deserves it?
Clank, clank, clank, the chains are around our ankles,
supercharged uncles they didn’t have a prayer, or
Handwritten prayers, or not enough of them.  Quiet one
Unutterable ideas have made me not well, I hear that
Clanking and tempt myself with this PC screen, its light.

CLANNISH

Slanderous words.  What happened to the money?
Helpless, I stand by the wayside and there were flowers,
Imitation silk could not stand in for these.  The damn
Victual I didn’t need.  I shall never scream for ice cream.
Tomorrow there is much to do and a one worries about
immaculate conceptions. Life is pure. I want to help.

CLAP
Make this world good somehow.  Tomorrow it shall be.
Earnest people clapping, this noise shows recognition,
Call me, or may I call you, and may God who is perfect.
Helpmates have I one?  I thought I could have one.
Interpreters know, don’t they?  I have prayed for Adam,
As well.  So for a time things last for a shorter duration
than expected.  The price of fame is not death per se,

Catch a phrase, we want to know and be known, we
Accept changes and the prayer was an old prayer, my
Fair friends, who are you?  Will I see you tomorrow?

TO CLAP

Lummox of the self, what makes us clumsy, no sight,
Internet makes us see too close, what unpleasantness
Mainstream media is the visible sign of the times, but
Cretinism threatens to make our children weak, the
Hemisphere is this realm, the sky over us is slightly
Oblong. 
 
Crestfallen, what are we looking at, what questions.
Awl, again we are piercing leather, what
Fruit is in season, the incessant buzzing over and over.

Clapper
Interrogatory Judy, no Punch this time, just Judy,
Nose in the law books, we had to have a way about us,
Brought into a new way of reflection, now I have this
Automated stuff before me.  I don’t care what it is,
Looking glass specific.  It gets boring devotion is not

CLARET
Your devotion could be boring as mine could be, the
Automaton self me, winning at odds, don’t get used to
Your lucky strike or winning streak rather.  The mistake
Introduce you weakest link if there is one and that’s
Notice of where the jailbreak might have originated.
Avocation was my love and passion; I thought I had to
Do something, some type of demonstration, show
Of hands, not a mime necessarily just a response in
Messy crowds.  No order until order is called for.

CLARIFICATION
Bring me a prayer Lord.  I cannot call you Sir, I recall
Earrings as gifts and the day that I got my ears pierced.
Representative from each state are down at the capital.
Unprofitable winners, there to learn about countries.
Repugnant age has made us batty, we must interact.
 
Heptagons, let me call out, mathematician you, school’s
A heavenly sort of religion.  Our schools whisk away the
Vulnerable children, what I liked was not better than
Hermitage, we used the children to repeat these lyrics,
A song is written and we could write it together, shall I
Reprimand myself.  I think so today, I cannot pretend,
A canary is yellow, I have never seen one. 

TO CLARIFY

Lumpish stuffed animals run through the wash,
Earnings of a poor, poor curmudgeon,
Vultures picking on the rawest flesh,
August heat, it doesn’t matter anything,
Reprint the feeling it is still there without
Expression, there will always be expression.
Reputed belief, of course you were believed.

Lump in our throat, it did not stump us,
Ecclesiastical mind, fear height, small child of mine.
Hereunder the father who hates is not right, the mother
Awakened.  They will not take your heart and soul, the
Vexatious seven devils in your heart, the love of him.
Hereupon the living flesh roam as it may, we are tired
Intercom is a friend to distance, to reverberation.
Reputation means that people see what is done.

CLARINET
Crew cuts. I’ve never had one, military, my son,
Looker a real looker, she is, he is, what we wanted no
Avid, no greed touching my soul, I don’t need all this
Rapprochement, the cordial revelation of teenagers,
Intrinsic to a human being’s pattern of living,
Nope, not this time. 
Eavesdrop if you are trying to be a spy.
Take this that I have prepared for you.

CLARION

Croaking like frogs, we are wet.
On Wednesday it rained.
Lazy we were and could not do anything.
Republican can we were but knew not what it meant.
A lonely person I am, in a distant place, the kid is with
me today, then with him.  We had him but we are not
 
vying with one another.  We had him and love him and
eventually he will grow like all plants and animals.
This boy, his future before him, for more years to
Struggle with humanity.  We’ve gotten lazy, too lazy.
Arial is a perfect font.  I repeat myself.  He is too pretty.
Lucky, I think.  It is nothing to say it but we like to speak,
Understand one another.  We like to talk to others if
Love is what creates a bond between men and women. 

CLARITY
Sometimes I feel green or weird or awkward.  I lug
Hefty books and papers across a campus.  I like tents,
Canteens that hold water.  Memories of Girl Scouts. 
It gets worse, the writing.  Calm yourself, we are only
Fond of Garamond and some people made rash rulings.
Underneath it all, you really love me, she says.  Perhaps
That love was young.  Together, we come together,

CLASH
Herewith our kings and queens, our princes, princesses.
I do not know who they are.  A strange encounter with
the outsider, they call me strange and send me packing.
Across an entire continent we travel and are not afraid.
California was not an island to me, but a town and city.
Love met me there as love meets us everywhere, just
unlike the next minute, each minute may vary, each
Tree’s branches are each individual, unique to that tree.

TO CLASH

Lost in another universe, I had run away, without funds.
Emitting a little phosphorescence, see us in the dark.
Heredity gives us a certain appearance, with only means
Actions and acquired space, the green hills of Ireland,
Cream puffs of Bavaria.  Each classic look or hint of
Ingratiating smile, nice clothes, the best of the best of
Synchronous beats, you have set a goal too high, girl,
Hell-bent again, I return to these brand habits, thinking

Like somebody has got to buy it, but for whom, who will
Evelyn share her wealth with, with whom, grammar is
Hellenization in part, for isn’t Greece the center of it;
Ingrid is not usually an ingrate, I can put things in order
Too.  These notes don’t matter to anyone but myself
necessarily but that’s okay.  Something is wrong and
Anyone has to figure out what, even though it’s all been
Grievously done before I try to self-help myself, to push
Earnestly forward some positive way.  I don’t like to run
Sally said.  I cared about each person, didn’t I? No.  It’s a
Herculean feat.  The composition competition begins. 

CLASP

Afghans lovingly stitched, or just in boredom,
Victory goes to the sweetest.  To pen these sweet
Tasmanian lines, you write down your world,
Spells I was cast under.  A world of appreciation,
All I want to do is continue my yoga practice.  Yogurt?
My father says.  There is no punctuation anymore and

TO CLASP
HOLD ON TO
Love the silent speech, grammar is disbanded,
each writer creates their silent world, there
Creation is minute, more manageable, we take
Heritage and tie it in a knot, you think that doesn’t
Amount to cold, hard cash.  There is something I don’t
believe and something I don’t want so you can have it?
Everyone wants this or that for a reason.  They teach
Crustaceans to crawl the parents, evolved from what?

FASTEN
Love tomorrow.  It feels so good to write incessantly,
Earnestly, quietly, anything you want to.  Love, beauty,
Heresy these three are ok, the first two unparalleled,
Anything could not be better than what is lovely, but
Dogs and me love anger, it’s silly, okay? It’s a letter,
Expression is a letter, it doesn’t matter, I could put this
Crispy lettuce on a slice of bread and this line on a rock.

DEPRESSING
My favorite thing to do is to write words on rocks but I
Eventually believe that community must be built up so
David, the sculpture I mean, will become even more
Acceptable to the world and famous.  Also, I could send
Creative messages to him with my hands behind my
Extracurricular back.  Don’t worry about it, all it means.

DERISION
Love is like nothing else, I’m just telling you what
I need and love, we don’t have time to listen to every
good soul just ourselves when we do this self-centered
Labor on an air mattress.  I was there on the mattress.
Ugly betty, a self wearing the same spectacles as Taylor.
God loves us but doesn’t need encouragement.  Laugh.