Water flows like time Fast and rocky Smooth and quiet Trickle and bubble I bend in the stream Like a good Confucian in confusion Frightened of fighting the flow Tao Drift with the sand/silt A pebble worn bald Watch the seasons grow The rain falls and adds to the stream The pain goes and sinks below Falling, settling, rolling Picked up and smoothed Broken, cracked Journeying to the sea The beach of the river is grey and black Cut through the landscape The banks of the water meadow Time flows like sand on the streambed Screams past like cars on the bridge I see the water from the road The rain slicks the tarmac and heads for the drain Away to mix with the human waste To rejoin upstream I see the rushes My life as a film And I am just an extra I see the rushes Bending in the flow Papyrus elsewhere I see the rushes White rabbit lifestyle Late late caffeine cigarettes speed and ecstasy Faster cars and neon nights dance dance manic rabbit heartbeat life The river flows under the bridge The sand moves and settles Pebbles roll and eternity passes The bridge stands at right angles This is progress This is the way A film is made of 24 frames per second It flows together to make a gestalt Watch time-lapse of the water rise and fall Watch time-lapse of the cars blur into lines of plastic/steel Watch time-lapse of the stars make concentric circles Meditate on a corpse Dust on the road washed into the gutter Dust in the river flowing to the stars When the sun turns red and eats the sky Dust blasted into planetary nebula Dust drifting into interstellar space Dust alone in the cold and the dark Flakes of my skin Joining the river of dust heading towards M87 Two hydrogen and one oxygen Lubricating my eye Sodium united with chlorine Purified in the fusion of supernova meltdown explosion Sea water gift of the stars I am dust I write I live A frame A pixel A grain of wit A pearl of life in the cold river of time I am carbon I am iron I am water |