London Pleasures IV

 

come, let's take stock

of our pleasures

said the thin man

what are our pleasures?

why hate, my men

hate, said the thin man

let us hate, let us revel

in that hate that is nothing but

an attempt to shield us from the 

inadequacies and incapacities

of our own selves for not

being able to let the past

by, bye bye past

why not bye bye past

oh how hard bye bye past is

for every consciousness

bye bye past,

just

bye bye past,

here is present

it is a present to you, this present

But oh no, past

Past is not done with present.

Unless you have the will

to make it so.