NEW PROPOSALS TO NOT JUMP OFF THE JETTY

                 
                
           Cabinet will commission sentry line palings for the seawall
           so quick break! you wouldn't wave dive . go oil thiefing . perish
           and embarrass the thought. They hold you so dear. 

           Newspapers are working to not bad spell your name
           when headlines report you missing . while weeds, verily they say,
           engrave the stone.

           City Council will over pave the old Dutch canals . design
           bicycle lanes for youth access to specialties in vanity and vein  ̶   
           heir to estate royalty and drain.

           Chinese built pump platforms will enable lift lag balloons : retail
           bamboo flare up rods for won't fly rooms; test more with less.

           Cabinet will cordially invite British monarchy to consider retirement
           on a horse ranch : equestrian smiles from the Venezuela border. For so
          
God saves the gracious.

                                                                   < First, run checks 
           how all that works for you. And give thanks  ̶  if you go dead
           comrades won't
 thank you, yea though they walk.

                         Ships have deep space gone before > rest assured :
           dust to done nothing out there veers for mating. Stars like bullion
             mast the rig wind regardless. In crafting passage the leap clears 
               from a raft of temptations as the eagle at daybreak discovers.

                                                                                          – W.W.

 

                    

                  

 

 

   

                              
                            ADDICTION

                            I:  

                            A dash to the edge of a cliff  ̶  to brake,
                            his wings unopened, and to turn back,
                            sighing at having survived again
                            this game of attempts, of determined doubt.

                            II: 
  
                            All is habit, except the habit
                            of none. And what lean logical men can
                            say of that is the fattest habit yet.

     
                   (from "Scratches On The Air" by Brian Chan)