Shell

Peter Hammill

Composição de: Peter Hammill
Turn a card, turn a page, the action 
sure to start, second-stage reaction 
to illogical thoughts on random lines 
in a Borges dream we move toward 
the writing of lives. 
Leave it out, leave it in, no edits - 
with a shout, with a grin I said 
it was a certainty that I'd arrive 
in an Escher sketch we walk around 
the drawing of lines. 

The character uncertainty 
as he contemplates his lot 
and tries to move with urgency 
though he's rooted to the spot. 

On the brink, on the edge, but lately 
what I think, what I said escapes me 
in a flash, a tiger burning bright 
does the visionary trance obscure 
the burgeoning night? 

And she said "What are you doing?" 
And he said "What do you think?" 
Oh, no, 
what on earth are we doing? 

The characters procrastinate 
on the threshold of the door; 
there's something here that fascinates, 
though the meaning's still unsure 
and the plot so thick... 
is it some kind of history? 
Sketch the thumbnail to the quick. 
Oh, even though it's full of contradiction, 
though it's flawed in the design 
this is no fiction, it's a lifeline. 

Here we are, there we went, full circle 
shooting stars, heaven-sent, turned turtle 
on the beach are shells are left behind 
life a library, like a memory 
of our ghost-written lives.
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