Candor

[rowens]

I was walking around a house, and the line The Earth works though the Moon's a calendar. There was no comma, but with the rest of the sentence, and the nature of the line breaks, I decided a grammatical pause was due. The same occurred to me about the first fly stanza, but I excused that by chalking it up to the annoying sound of the fly.

Everything seems to change, though people go to work each day, and things both seem to change and stay the same. The Moon is an illusionary guide we set our time by. It too appearing to change.

All the while the threat of real change by war and new and more powerful weapons. And the beasts labelled and studied and classified, though remaining wild. Scientists, too.

Earth, Moon, Angels, Fay and Demons are capitalized. Oddly, beasts is not, despite their classifications. Nor is ground, fly or the moon in the fly's perspective.

People talk a lot about fair trials and fair deals. What do they mean?

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I've always used the phrase, "the same dull round", thinking of it as a common folk expression, then, I remembered it was a line from a William Blake thing.

Living as I do, I'm accustomed to close quarters with flies, and they show up in my poems and usually speak. After writing this poem, I remembered this other Blake thing:

Little Fly
Thy summers play,
My thoughtless hand
Has brush'd away.

Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?

For I dance
And drink & sing:
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing.

If thought is life
And strength & breath:
And the want
Of thought is death;

Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live,
Or if I die.

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I'm an advocate of mysteries. Even the Mystery that Blake rails against. Though I get his point.