Needle Poem by Gary Diamond

Trying to thread a needle through a hole several sizes too small.
Figuring out a pattern and laughing hard at it because it doesn't belong.
Oh no never that hard to fathom
Oh no, never really any different
Than anyone
That I shall ever meet.

Stories and jokes that I once believed to be funny
Are in fact just little abominations
Tiny rueful adstractions
Not worthy of the time left to take them.

We believe the needle a clean and worthy vessel
Smooth and metallic in the udulating light.
But zoom in closely like the science edge video
And it's no more a truth
Than the planets we've never been to
But believe to be hanging around the solar system.

There's a moon well up there.
Driving people mad on it's forthright set day.
I don't like the honesty
But denying it makes me look stupid
Like everyone else.

The needle and the thread
Little change from the cow and the dish and the spoon
Laying their truth mainfest there bare.
Trying to seem vital as should be.
Myths planted like ugly seeds.