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Everybody Wonders

from Elegant Pond by Adam Balbo

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Everybody wonders where the spaces get their names.
No one can quite figure out which distance there is to blame.
The morning cardinal’s counting on his fingers.
The jellyfish are busy writing jingles.
The phoenix bird is looking east.

Take me to the pond, or you can take me to the lake.
Take me to where the ocean ends but do it for your own sake.
The parakeet told me that he knows the way.
But his gate key was lost in some poker game.
But the bird tells me he’s looking up.

My hair is brown. My lips are old. And you have seen this nose.
I’m sitting down. Now I’m standing up. And I try to feel my own toes.
Everybody’s seen this kind of thing before.
Someone will still ask you if you do or don’t ignore
the kind of shit they’ve heard goes down.

The battleground was thick with fog as you tried to count your dead.
Your quiet breath always tickled me when you peered inside my head.
You tried to hide my bag of leaves and my marble made of lead.
You should know I left those things at home.

I could talk in circles or squares or even hexagons.
Eventually you’ll dig a ditch to see which side I’m standing on.
The spade you are using doesn’t know which way is down.
The feet you use to stand upon have never seen the ground.
And the sky above keeps going round and around and around and around.

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from Elegant Pond, released October 15, 2002

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