LANGUID UNDERTAKE

Coined adversarial,

Swept into a load

Confused, reaching

Stumbled stasis, rife

With intentional duplicity—

Now comes the shellacking

Twixt now & forrriver

Sweet dumpling hip hooray

A man’s melancholic babe

She’s notwithstanding wondrous

Each in a hurry flies

Ever into a beyond

Shuffling every doubt

Back to engaged precision

Leap into every obstacle

And you’ll finally fall

Not your minding once

We got through our history

It’d come back haunting

The braveries of desire

Homemade language up

& down the wonderland

Stuck to a state

Brought into parallel

Universes coming & going

Short stretch long-lived

You know every angle

Suit what comes of you

Living precisely inward

This group focus dawns

And you recover all

Made you come alive

Whenever it riots

Carefree end zone

Set into the body

Works that shine fully

Endeavor that erupts

Keepsake romance, exits

In our shambling form

What more you instead

Make merry rearguard

Reveries of insistence

I could have hoped you

Once more climbed aboard

Kingmaker & dazzling light

Racing hopeful entity

Threading faith’s leap

Undoing prognosis

But it’s everyone’s grief

Great ape splurging ecstasy

Bent opening & pullover

Ransacked instantly

--Bill Pearlman

9-26-2011