an almost accidental gathering of poets
 
   
 
 
Klaus ten Eicken
 
The Final Assembly
Aluminum lullabies shrieking;
sneaking into the memories of
the instant sauce covered
robes of my sparkling
mother,
happy as the moon was green.

In our living room
a pregnant prince
on weekend nights
watched soaps
from his throne;
dissolving
when my worried voice
bounced off his
stainless armour.

And then one day in early May
behind the garden wall
in our garden I did play
red-cheeked and three feet tall.

A loving bird up in my tree
sang proudly of his love.
He looked so strong and fancy-free
against the sky above.

The melody, that stroked my ear
and through my senses rode,
it wiped my mind so crystal clear,
I feared it might explode.

Then in the early days of youth,
though I was very small,
I sensed I knew IŽd heard the truth
and wished to know about it all.

They put me on a yellow bus
that carried me away.
The building looke like Alcatraz
and there they made stay.

They fed me feathers,
tails, heads, beaks,
and clawy and Darwin, archeopteryx, and Devon,
a- minor, rhythm, valves, refrain
Oxymoron, refrain, refrain, refrain
muscles, structure, harm
ony, cloaca, demisemi quavers

till song like bird
became a
w - o- r- d.

we never sang
we did not fly
time
just passed
by

And when the holes of time collapsed
and blood turned into gold,
I was wrapped up in purple straps
and labelled. "To Be Sold".

I am complete.

Juts add water
and stir.
   
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