SKITTISH

skittish to what forms inside
wantonness dream scape.
gash darn! definitely hung up
on dreamland and scheming 
up short forms of nastiness.

spelunker creeping up on
all that nasty business, now
formulating. gosh almighty darn!

ain't no skittish spelunker 
sneaking through here without
some serious retaliation.

will have mustard with that.
snail mail now entering premises. 

the night was cold.
well,  yah, wintertime.
winter in South Dakota;
expect winter to be cold.

well, us folk in South Dakota;
we put on a coat.
that's about it; all of it, in fact.
we're good to go.

seems easy, doesn't it/
well, yah, it is, real easy.
a coat. 
welcome to winter. 

uncanny instincts
prevailing among lower
lifeforms. 

paranoia take a wife;
beats her;
she shoots him.

and a mannequin suffering
hypothermia.

hyperactive bought
into running scams
under guise of guessing 
twice, shooting once.

she was never prosecuted
for shooting him.
she had this self-defense
thing going for her.

good for her, bad for him.
and life goes on. 

was walking when running
was popular. and talking
when talking not allowed.

and always seemed to be
running to catch up with
myself and those chasing me.

whichever, whatever happens,
always ends up lost and an acre
away from any place
I've ever been.

once again, have been stymied
in my quest for brilliance above
and beyond any before 
brilliance ever realized
while stand at rapt attention. 

anger and frustration 
walk a mediocre path;
a circled path with
lousy traction in all 
this snow and ice.

slipping and sliding;
getting nowhere fast
as fast as slow can go. Ho!

but then again, anger,
frustration have
nowhere to go.

and now,
a word from persuasion.