I'm Watching My Mind Ride a See-Saw

 

I've got this Spike Milligan mind

You're beginning to see on your screen

A split second journey 10,000 miles

Extracted from where it has been

 

From source here, I see it on see-saw

It's Serious in charge, on the ground

While Comic's sky-high on the see-saw

But it's I who holds keys to this round

 

You mean don we can't play around?

See-sawing 'tween Comic and Serious?

You've unleashed us before, let us free

But this time you lock us, won't let us?

 

There's a place for you, Serious and Comic

I'm afraid that place's not here, and not now

I've keyed in the lock for you, Serious

You have work to do, I'll show you how

 

don, Serious here, what shall I tell them?

These minds from 10,000 miles away

Tell them I want intellectual interaction

Go tell them, go say what I say

 

Go tell them I think rather different

Go tell them I think rather strange

Go tell them some might think I'm way-out

Go tell them I think way off-range

 

But Serious ... yes?... I'm still here...

 

The question I keep asking myself

Asking myself as a writer

Does staying on-range as a writer

Does this make me any much righter?

 

I've listened don to what you say

A writer on-range can be right

But the off-range writer rights they can also

Be just as right as on-range rights

 

Don Matthews July 2018