Impatience is a plumb line stylites use to measure laymen’s balance when both feet are on the ground. The yogi topping his pillar seated above temptation, the showman poised on his flagpole doing nothing effectively, thinking his backbone is the planet’s axis. Inner peace does not belong to the tortoise for no matter how far Zeno races he is standing still. Even the second law of thermodynamics seems like karma: a long courtship, an ambush, an angler’s hook probing the rapids, an eyeless minnow gumming the stagnant pond. Every need is waiting as fast as it can.
Denmark Laine is a St. Louis poet, novelist and music critic whose work has been featured on Fox 2 KTVI, Subprimal Poetry, STL TV Live, Eleven Magazine, Bad Jacket, Panoply Zine, Book of Matches and Spartan Press. He has a BFA from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and was the graphic art director for Back of the Class Press. He is the author of Thorazine Ice Cream Parlor, The Gods of Autumn, Exile On Cherokee Street, The Absinthe Fountain, Aquarius Falling and The American Paranoid Society. He is still a geek for Greek myth, punk rock and finding other weirdos in the literary underground.
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