MIND CHATTERED

Oh, the mind is eely, slipping

out of its puzzle boxes,

loving its own wit . . . 

Mind/Body by Gregory Djanikian, Poetry Magazine, April 2000

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MIND CHATTERED

by

Jamie Dedes

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mind in chatter mode will do you in

like a car without a driver,

a good tool gone rogue

it will numb you with its burden of

old stories and wishing wells

could have beens, should have beens

crowd pleasers and ego teasers

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it will desecrate your sacred space

with the rotting carcass of old resentments

tired rivalries, rigid renunciations

it will domesticate your dreamscape with

the dreck of times gone by and

tedious, trivial, trumpery thinking

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it will leech and parch your soul garden

which would otherwise shout vivid

with rainbow flowers and the scents

of night-blooming jasmine, fresh morning dew

and a rose quartz blush of air current

for traveling to spring valleys, bright stars

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with mind in chat mode trapped in earthy ken

your most wonderous inner worlds go sadly

unimagined and unexplored and you –

you, fully chattered, shattered, scattered

will never even know

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Illustration ~  Frits Ahlefeldt, Public Domain Pictures.net.