Friday, January 2, 2009

Poetry of Inattention

As well as prawns, ants and birds like apricots,
but we do everything to stop them getting ours
even though we have so many that we need
to give them away or preserve them in jars

this morning I crushed the life from an ant
running scared in the bottom of the bowl
of apricots and when I'd done that
another ant ran out into the bowl

just now I'm making apricot preserves with sugar
in the recipe and we do not eat jam
all that often are we crazy
I sometimes wonder if I am

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