I love you, I hate you

Hate.

Spit in your eye.

Tear you apart,

Comfort,

Cry.

 

Tears

of falling to bits.

 

Wise words

&

Words to the wise.

 

the meaning

behind

the accent;

Swede, Dutch, Fin?

 

Yid? Vos mach du?

 

Ah, Wolfie…

 

Ratchet-up the observations,

Up the ante

Watch me,

Follow me.

 

Moment by moment, monitor my every move.

 

I spin,

I whirl,

I dance on occasion.

 

I am the Dervish.

 

A wall of sound, of movement, or disorganisation.

 

Clichés, one after the other,

trope

metaphor,

struggle.

Puzzle.

 

Araucaria.

 

I can’t think what to do or how to do it, you surely know better,

You are the one with the badge.

 

I am the one

with

rhinophyma,

wrinkled and grey, singing old-time songs,

Confident from my time spent on the line.