Friday, June 17, 2016
The Grouping
When Moore found a table
and chair, it completed him.
Trio from then on.
Makes no difference what he did.
His own clever solitaire with a
wildly shuffled deck?
Or laying out a newspaper in
patterns?
Or staring through his seven
inch tablet in meditative moments?
As if his eyes were nails down to
the Center of the Earth.
Did think of a woman, but another
chair seemed sacrilege.
The present grouping having an aesthetic
coherence as it stood.
You might feel he would die there, like that.
He had that thought too, and it comforted him.
Labels: aesthetic grouping, arrangement, art, contentment, grouping, Life as Art, solo
Monday, April 04, 2016
Smart-Answers Kelly
She arranged her makeup on the desk, musing.
Suddenly stamped the document. "No smart
answers, Kelly?"
"None!"
Well, you're promoted. Clerk Two!" She started
applying lipstick. Watermelon Ecstasy.
All her bright makeup named for fruits.
“Congratulations definitely in order!" laughed
Barmaid Lilly Nessley later.
Five regulars joined in singing "For He's a Jolly
Good Fellow!"
But somebody did deny. Other Kelly swept over with "Another rung on the Ladder to Oblivion?"
"Clerk One forever!" Bixxy sneered back at him.
The two eventually separated.
“Bad blood there!”--Kelly eventually shaking his head. Then telling Bixxy of the woman’s Smart Answers crack.
“Serious!” he warns. "She mixed you up with the Other Kelly. You never, ever, gave one in your whole entire life!"
“I'll never get promoted again then?”
“Probably.”
“What can I do about it?”
“Nothing.”
“But there must be something!”
“Stay content! The graveyards are full
of people tried to straighten out the
simplest problem.”
The gang starts another verse "That nobody
can deny, that nobody can deny!"
The Other Kelly lurks in a dim corner.
Labels: conformity, contentment, friends, Jolly Good Fellow, niceness, Other, promotion, work
