Thing to do on Wednesday

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︎︎︎ Thomas Daley

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︎ Dec 3, 2025

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Get x-ray,
rub ointment on her
            caterpillar rash,
excogitate upon scaffolding
erected around your disease.
Itch together, strangely,
            look
through window of bus,
“find peace.”
Allow word’s entanglement
            in trees,
            in angular lines
of sills,
actualize the speed
of destruction.

Learn the word
“excogitate,”
and utilize it
in a poem.
Pass the rows of today’s
Pieta’s,
            (man holding woman
            as Mary did Jesus)
while they nod into lands
of rainy bonsais.

Leave the gray day
wagging,

its tongue
eloping,
lips slobbering
outside your window.

Fade away
                        to sleep.