Accept and RepeatA Poem by Robert Ronnow
Always doing something
plus I have opinions Winning the war in Ukraine pain I can’t explain Saving for retirement kayaking to the huckleberries across the River Styx Kisses sweet or smell of s**t don’t pretend you don’t care If you just watch the sky an hour each day you’ll never be ill without plenty to say about everything you’ll get better right away Disrobing and bathing, how big and dark the universe is not that I accept their god You get what you believe, a truly scary thought man sees man in his mirror that is self-doubt Contraceptives in place and pleasures today drifting toward perpetual armageddon Suffering and struggling toward vague goals keeping your past functioning as a factor in the present That irritating constant need to survive prepare for a powerful anesthesia, irresistible chemical processes Life goes on without a hiccup you pays you money and you takes you chances Some people go dancing in fishnet stockings you’ll soon lose interest in wearing the cap of a fool Your friends are the men you’ll want in your foxhole the wound that never heals in the end is all you’ll feel You’ll remove all your clothes, naked before the ladies and if it comes to that, you’ll kill, on orders from whom? Basic science and ancient arts that must be what faith means If, as they say, the cells of the body are replaced every seven years fire makes earth into air, air makes earth into dust, water makes earth into mud © 2026 Robert Ronnow |
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