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What the log book doesn't show (Free verse) by INTRANSIT
It cannot show how my hydraulic
pump pushes red corpuscles scattering
into the industrial sunrise of memory.
This flat lined E.K.G. of time
with no ink marks , blue or red, cannot show
how long to build transparent links.
It cannot show identical surf
wagons chasing the other way,
or gimcrack gifts at every stop.
Or how I reach for the hill
on the horizon, my hand doing a slow
octopus crawl over its peaked crest.
It doesn't show how much fuel
I burn thinking about-- how quickly
I go bankrupt at the cost.
It shows when I'm in Freehold
New Jersey, or Chambers, Texas
but not what state I'm in.
It won't show the mouse tear that
eeks out at the corner, runs across
and hides in the ear.
If this record showed accurately
what is between these lines it would
show me half full, half empty.
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