the words that we use can lose all meaning when we’re trying to be cute
off in the distance the future waits – but doesn’t give up its secrets
normal is a word that denies everything we know about change
sit with me a while we’ll tell each other stories and we’ll understand
a deleted scene of a stranger’s life plays out in lost groceries
it’s on or it’s off authoritarianism mounted on the wall
maybe a surprise maybe it’s more of the same that is tomorrow
sometimes instructions over-complicate a task that we understand
from each negative we can create, if we choose something positive
two small moons orbit a large planet, or are they two coins and a bowl
uptown jack 