Michael Batchelor's Blog, page 16

Roadside Lillies

A family of 4
Driving along a
Narrow and winding
Road at night
Lost control
Swerved into a tree
Everyone died
Then their families
Came with flowers

For weeks they
Freshened the flowers
But after a while
They stopped coming
And the flowers decayed
Like the memories
Of the family
In the crash

But the dead flowers
Tell the living
To slow down
And it's a small
Consolation

Keeping Busy

People are out there
Saving lives
Extinguishing burning houses
Laying bricks
Teaching kids

And here I am
Laying on a couch
At 1:30 pm
Looking out the window
Watching the clouds drifting by

And I feel like one of them

Nobility

There's a nobility
To working a
Shit-kicking job
A sense of accomplishment
No matter how small
And a feeling
That you helped
Pull the oar
That turns the world

Greed

are people inherently
greedy
because they believe
we only live once
and they need to gobble up
everything in their path
before they kick
the bucket
if so
maybe we need to start
believing in heaven

A Question

What’s worse:
Making an offensive joke
About a problem
Or
Pretending to care about
A problem
Then not doing anything
To solve it

Nostalgia

Nostalgia is
An impressionist painting
Beautiful from far away
Messy up close
And is best left
Behind glass
And under soft lighting
Never to be touched again

My Cat

My cat
Stares at me
With these big
Blue eyes
It’s a look that
Suggests
She knows a higher truth
But once she’s finished
Staring at me
She starts licking her arse
And I’m suddenly
Not so sure

Spinning Plates

A tree trees
A sea seas
A hill hills
A bird birds
A dog dogs
Yet a human doesn't human
We should be listening
To the animals
We deem
Inferior

Introvert

I'm glad that
I'm friends with myself
I feel sorry for the people
Who have to be around people constantly
To distract themselves
From that quiet reflection
In the mirror

Retirement

I understand why
Some people dread retirement
It's when the clock
Becomes obsolete
And you
I imagine
Feel the same way
Watching the workers
Keep busy
With their self-importance