Interrupts, v2.0

[ . . . ] In
the silence of the days of the week
	We
become other than who we actually are
	But
returning
	for the night
		We have meetings:
	Anyone,
meet everyone
	Someone,
meet no one
That one,
	meet this one
Young one,
	meet old one [ . . . ]

		~ ~ ! ~ ~

	Beyond
& about / our meetings
All of us rush for the exits
Never ceasing to take stock
Once in a great while,
	All of our pieces flock together,
		flying;
	They plunge into it en masse,
A to Z,
Lock, Stock, and Barrel,
	we pop up anywhere you might try to go
	and get tangled up,
        grinding it all up,
        a firehose of sand in-
        -into grinding the gears of anything
you might
be apt
to try
to do -

You can douse every flame
- but we carry matches &
	& play little games with them;
		- our light does not go out
			no matter how often
				we catch
					Interrupts

First version was published in my ebook Synaptic Syntactic and can also be read here: https://lostinmist.blog/2024/04/09/interrupts/ . Featured image sources from Unsplash.com.

See also tag: synaptic syntactic, and Synaptic Syntactic on BookBaby (links for Synaptic Syntactic on Amazon, iBooks, Barnes & Noble, and Rakuten Kobo are listed there too. Also available on some other platforms.)