A Life in the Day
Paul said "it's just another day"
all magical things start this way,
"slipping into stockings stepping into shoes"
out before the sunrise making our own news.
Our preparations for a day,
washing off the bruises covering the clues
outside the days not stopping,
slipping into sunlight exposing other views.
A twelve-hour blink for dreams and drinks
to bridge our night iron out The Kinks,
slipping into character stepping on the blues,
joining up the colours to circumvent the queues...
the tubes a halfway hell you feel its rumble deep,
there's no one you can tell the signal is too weak.
Slipping into tunnels stepping into streets
everyone commuting plugging in the beats.
It's just another day slip sliding away,
and John said "Well, we all shine on
like the moon and the stars and the sun"
stepping into slipping skipping out the way
and Johns all gone.
David RL Moore
Fri 26th Apr 2024 06:29
Thanks Telboy, Greg and Steve for your comments and to those who gave likes.
It's true, who knows whose contributions last and whose don't, difficult to gauge.
That Lennon line in "Instant Karma" is one that rattles around my head often. It's comforting in its way, in moments of disappointment it's a useful chant.
A few years ago I was doing a little work in Highgate, London... Passing by the terraces on South Grove I spotted an old gent coming out of a front door, collar up cap pulled down he looked slightly familiar. It was Ray Davies shuffling along to the Tesco Express on Highgate High Street. In that moment I just couldn't get Waterloo Sunset out of my head, this hunched figure living out his life in the gentrification of Highgate...up from The River he had serenaded all those years ago. He was somehow a sad figure but seeing him lifted my mood a little, that's music for you...like medicine for the moment.
Thanks again folks.
PS, Johns not gone