PEOPLE JUST RATTLE ON
Red mini comp Spt 27-
Prompted by my missing things, like #s and names in e.g. newscasts
and I thought I could hear, but I miss details, while people just rattl on.
Co-incidentally, I had just submitted to Rattle Poetry, in which I said
About missing ticking a box in the submission form:
My second submission (the first didn’t go), the tick had moved on, as tics do!
People, me included, sometimes tend to blurt. Ooops.
People Just Rattle On
Blu mini comp Nov 23-Dec 23-19
People just rattle on, about this and that,
Inadvertently revealing their biases as they
state and restate, and repeat, their own POV
things through!
People gather round every day.
People in cafes. Coffee shops are
Filled with them,
People who just rattle on with
Gossip, news, jokes, et al.
They fill the days with it, the need
For connection, the desire for
Fellowship, a way to fill a mystic
Emptiness, for respite from the need
To fill every crack in every day with work,
Concern for their own success…
They feel the need to putty over
The cracks in their windshields of
Progress, band aid their weaknesses…
And so, they just rattle on, feeding off
The glazed responses reflecting back
At them, blinding them from the windshield
washer solution they doubt will clear
their vision…
Sometimes, though, when a person
Need medical help, perhaps serious surgery,
Or has lost a loved one to disease or disaster,
The rattle is welcome balm and helps to shake
The person out of it and into a calmer state.
Yeah, sometimes when people just rattle on,
It helps.
Sometimes this gift of the gab can be
Channelled.
Sometimes, it just means
I love you.
—H. W. Bryce
