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LAZY LEGS

from TENDER AS WATER by Tom Ross

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Amos Tutuola's bizarre stories in The Palm-Wine Drinkard and a real quotation from a 110-year-old Azerbaijani man produced this.

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Grow up, lazy legs!
Don’t let my head get old before you
Slow down, Mr. Hat!
Take back the head I borrowed from you

The Hat is rolling calmly, so
you never can be still
the Hat will not get old or young
so you are in his will

Better to return
what you never owned:
the Hat even lends out names!

Light as the dust
but what simple gravity
keeps you on the road,
and where can you be rolling?

Got my face from you
and my feet and my fingers
They must get back to you:
won’t you wait for me?

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from TENDER AS WATER, released February 7, 2016

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As E Dickinson says:

Nature is what we know
but have no art to say
so impotent our wisdom is
to her simplicity

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