Quotes and Sayings - Collective Action

COLLECTIVE ACTION

"Waiter!
Please increase the wine
in this glass"
And monsieur
looks at a lady

Of beautiful
proportions. Another
monsieur glances
towards the entrance
towards the street yonder
through the window.
And spots a man.
This one gets up
and joins the man.

Of distinguished
proportions. Another
monsieur enters,
And contaminates the rhapsody
Of gleaming eyes
of which the pupils
were dancing
right and left.
All pupils now being
transfixed infectiously
at the new stranger.

Of devastatingly final
looks and hand movements.
Monsieur number three
Withdraws machine gun number three
And fires in threes.

Action ceases
to flow.
All movements
seem to be in
slow motion as
glasses break,
skins break
and bullets attempt
penetration
into every square inch
and cubic centimetre.

It cannot be possible.
But as it is anyway.
We'll find monsieur
number three
Three reasons
not to break
people.

( August 1999)

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