I Am A Drumbeat

Day: a get-up; your wind-chime only
says good-morning; breakfast; snacks;
so strange to sleep - not lonely;
I ask - what - if anything - lacks?

Says good-morning; breakfast; snacks;
a day - just the same I know - I lapse:
I ask - what - if anything - lacks?
to go to - to work - to find the legs another fourteen laps;

a day - just the same I know - I lapse:
the doctor cruelly has no name -
to go to - to work; to find the legs another fourteen laps;
done badly - I will not hear from him again -

the doctor cruelly has no name.
Day again: grey socks; first - pale feet -
done badly - I will not hear from him again -
his walls are smeared with light - still dark - concrete;

day again: grey socks; first - pale feet -
I foot the floor - noone watching. Night:
his walls are smeared with light - still dark - concrete;
fight nothing - hard - with nothing set alight;

I foot the floor - noone watching. Night:
I fight what's overheard;
fight nothing - hard - with nothing set alight;
but with endless catfights keepin' me awake - with the birds -

I fight what's overheard;
it's life and such and as such - has no right lines -
but with endless catfights keeping me awake - with the birds -
and with the wind-chime days re-called - I say I'm fine

it's life and such and as such - has no right lines -
so strange to sleep - not lonely;
and with the wind-chime days re-called - I say I'm fine;
day: a get-up; your wind-chime only.