read it before the sirens arrive

i fondle this keyboard
to kill
time
while
the
sirens

come,
faint,
then

a bit more than faint ..

gettin' down this
one
more section
before they come and take
all of this
machine away from me
and

wonder
about all the other allegations ..

gettin' closer,
I have
to
let it out
or

they are going to squeeze it farther down ..

shit,
two sirens,
the first one is getting
dangerously close ..

the trumpet is playing
in
my head,
the temple sweats a dusting
and

the Batman theme
song is
being sounded over the neighborhood
as

I let you know that if I lived
forever
I would
probably get as close as I could
imagine
to knowing what all of this is about,
or
would it be worth it ..?

are we only to inhabit down here in our
average allotted time to figure what
we have to figure
because it
would take the mystique out of shit to have several hundred
or several thousand year old folks that have seen,
heard and done
most of what you can only imagine,
and they have all the answers figured,

THE FIRST SIREN is right around the corner,
the second siren is getting closer
and

a third one has popped up over the hills in the back ..

so,
the time is
coming after me
as
forever remains

that element
hard to put the mind completely around
because it never ends ..

the cops have
come through the bottom door,

no time
to
finish,

the second cop just arrived,

I'm out ..