'Once i cared, or once i gave a damn'

 

‘Once i cared, or once i gave a damn’ timothy r gates, 4/6/2013

Once i cared about being

right

then i cared about being

left

No i don’t care about being

right, or even correct,

don’t give a damn

about you being

right, left

right, or even incorrect

But of course i care,

i do give a damn, maybe blessed,

about that i don’t give a damn

about all of the bullshit

whether from me, you, them, us –

Credo:

Take all of the shit

spewed from our mouths,

left, right

wrong, correct

and we’d never need more of it,

fertilizer enough for a millennium of decades,

and just maybe, perhaps

in a blue moon, soon

it wouldn’t just smell like more of the same shit –

and a tulip hugging a rose would

dance atop it all.

Well, it’s a better than nice thought.