Robert Ronnow
                                                                                              The Imaginary i



                      If Not One Way, Then Another


Thanks for another day
Others curse their luck, stale breath
Eventually our enemy becomes our brother

Cancer checkup, another swinging dick who fears his death
To not necessarily sacrifice each and every day for another day
I’m going to go to my grave unsung like almost everyone

Numerous number systems beyond the real
Look one way, from another come the heart’s missed beats
One way out of the mind’s limitations is through another mind’s contemplations

Another autumn, another election, so aimless and sublime
The white egret ate fish after fish, one then another then another . . .
You get a limited number of long walks, so take your time

One gives up body and soul but that’s not what I came to talk about
Slug the world and the world slugs back
It was amusing in my youth, that God’s finger can move me to another square

Another duality, a day in the woods, jet passing overhead
I am in favor of kindness and you prefer concentration camps
The slow death of one sometimes makes the sudden murder of another

To survive only as many more years as there are petals on a randomly picked (ox-eye) daisy
Another winter passing its calling card in at the window
One day follows another until the last day and on that day there will be weather


Copyright 2022 by Robert Ronnow.