Prove It - Tom Verlaine

The docks

the clocks

a whisper woke him up the smell of water

would resume.

the cave

the waves

of light the unreal night.

that flat curving

of a room.

Prove it… just the facts… the confidential

This case, this case, this case that i…

i’ve been workin’on so long…

first you creep

then you leap

up about a hundred feet

yet you’re in so deep

you could write the Book.

Chirpchirp

the birds

they’re giving you the words

The world is just a feeling

you undertook.

Remember?

Now the rose

it slows

you in such colorless clothes

Fantastic!

You lose your sense of human.

Project

Protect

It’s warm and it’s calm and it’s perfect

It’s too «too too»

to put a finger on This case is closed.