Ponderable polemics, poetic

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Shake-up

The time is now 
complacency
should find no
solace

false starts
do-overs and
tomorrows
been there
done that
nearly to death

So what makes
this time
any different
what says
I can do this
with any more
conviction than
the time
before the times
before
those other times

Penultimate to
rock-bottom
don’t miss a step
zig this time
where you usually
zag

with clarity of
last chances
comes
reality, resolve
now, never
acquiesce
today is the day
nullification
gives way to
no longer

This is your
Etch-A-Sketch
moment
quick flick
up, down, left
right
repeat, vigorously
until your
hands bleed

The time is now
flip it over
look at the gray
blankness
contemplating
next
inhale on the
now
murky, grainy
slate
a dirty clean

Draw a line
start fresh

now.


– Mark L. Lucker
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