Walking on Thin Ice

siesta Lady - foto by smith

got this email from a MySpace friend

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last night, just as i was falling asleep, i got a poem going through my head about you and Lady coming up with “water is sneaky”. i fell asleep before i could write it down.

this morning i remembered most of it, except for the last bit, which i remember really liking. oh well…

here’s what i threw together this afternoon:

i can picture you,
capturing his slippery words,
as they drip
from his mouth
in a font not yet made.

you take his words
and spout a sneaky collage,
that bounces off surfaces
when read aloud.

- *hugs* - meribeth

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here’s our poem she’s referring to:

WATER IS SNEAKY

waterisneaky.

water is sneaky. also, patient, and insidious.
it’ll beat against you for thousands of years
in big waves
until it smoothes you down
or breaks you apart.

or it’ll lie still in quiet pools,
and insidiously work
on the weakest
point

leaking

and

dripping

and moving.

And then when water does slowly sneak
inside, and lie in wait,

then it can FREEZE and EXPAND with

TREMENDOUS FORCE and BREAK

(so water is sneaky,
insidious
and
patient.)

while SOUND is slippery
(and sneaky)

SOUND slip slides off every flat surface

SOUND double or triple slip slides

skips from here
to there

(so you think what came from there
came from here.)

SOUND plays tag with yr ears
and lies
a lot.

Plus, in destructive force, SOUND
(shatters)

whereas
water

wears away

- Lady & Smith, January 2008

political graffiti - foto by smith