Somehow A Single Word Poem by Patti Masterman

Somehow A Single Word



Somehow a single word can miss things
He drank all the water from my aquarium
Said a conscience was too much weight to carry
He said my mirrors were full of dark water
And that three emotions fell out of my diary
When it was turned upside down, like heavy rain spilling
Out of ruined libraries-
Although truth was only a sewer, up some rich man's sleeve.

I bought him bus fare to go anywhere
Told him to go where there was more air
So he could breathe free again, and now he's sailing
Some mountain range, somewhere.

The air less there, but how he hates change
He said the oceans are controlled by hidden powers
And poisoned now, and only the white porous sea shells
Can get them clear them again, if we could import
Some extras from Titan or somewhere to detoxify
I said, that bus ticket is much too dear.

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