In the Park

In the Park

A Poem by Gerald Parker

Today was a remarkable day
for thinking unremarkably in the park
which is not the same as
it was a remarkable day
in the park for thinking unremarkably.
Nevertheless, thinking was happening
unremarkably in the park.
This does not irrefutably mean that
the thinking I was doing
was unremarkable.

But who was going to tell me,
having a nice day as instructed
when I left the shop/house/restaurant/etc.,
that my thinking was unremarkable?

Besides, it’s my opinion that most people
don’t think their thoughts are unremarkable,
in fact, they put a high value on their thoughts
so much so that they usually call them private
and keep them to themselves with ‘keep out’ signs
and have to be offered a penny to share them -
a penny, of course, being nowhere near the value
they’d put on them nowadays.

However, no-one, of course, was actually going
to tell me my thinking was unremarkable
but, because it was not possible
for anyone apart from me to remark
the thinking that was happening in the park,
it could be argued, against my will, that
my thinking actually was unremarkable
in the park on that remarkable day.
.

© 2019 Gerald Parker


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Added on January 10, 2019
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Author

Gerald Parker
Gerald Parker

London, United Kingdom



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There's not much to tell. I read a lot of poetry and I read my own poetry regularly. I hope other people read it and derive as much pleasure out of it as I do. My output is small, about 110 poems as I.. more..

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