Cabin Fever

Shape Up

12/03/02

...watching...waiting... <looks around anxiously>

fumbled, stumbled
tiny bag falls from hand <a failure to enter the pocket>
handcuffed
state of positioning
handcuffed
state of mind
handcuffed
state of corrections <facility for the incorrect>

lights on shows over
a bell in the morning
A WAKE UP CALL A WAKE UP CALL
"do as I say
not what I said"
shape up or ship out
MOVE ALONG walk tall
upstanding
young
person
with a dream
separate from an agenda

LIFE
big bold letters
a tale of two meanings
street world/real world
neither one to stay
just good for short visits
run run run
busy busy busy
                    but what differentiates the two
?
streets
tell stories
of survival by pyhsical means
wear haggared, beaten faces
bemoan woes
share in everyone's humility
         the real
         stories tell themselves
         in ways unbeknownst to most
         talk in cryptic jargon
         either known or not <predetermined destiny spoke long ago>
         a different kind of smart

the kid
rags to riches
to rags to riches
to rags
know where I stand nowhere I stand
misery was the company
flushed <no good reason> from a love/loathe position
<deep breath>
no more
pinsandneedles needlesandpins
<deep breath>
home. to stay. for awhile.
no progress to monitor. my work here is done.