Tuesday: She Pours.

At about midnight, I sat down to "pen" out this entry and when I had a fair amount of it completed, realized that I was writing about something that I don't actually know. At 1, I abandoned my web browser for some spoken word tracks instead. The sort of intellectual nonsense that I'm capable of pulling is really something that I'm trying to avoid if/when I catch myself. There is frailty to words. From philosophy to poetry - there is a frailty to words.

So I'm just going to put up a poem. Right here and now about this text. I'll put up the first "complete" draft I get. These are still words. I can't escape that, but at least there's no illusion of profundity.

[I wrote all of the above at about 2 in the morning]

As the timestamp will eventually indicate once I publish, it's now almost 4 in the morning.

Here is the poem:

She Pours

she knows
knows this night is important
that this man is important
so she goes
pulls herself down beneath the table
uncorks eleven ounces of pure blessing
and kisses not the man
...but his feet
because his feet connect with more people and places
than his hands will ever reach
and these feet
bless more land
than water can seep
so she pours
dumps on restoration
elevates the last two things anyone thinks about at dinner
and pours
out comes more than just perfume
more than just the worth of the liquid
being wasted on weary feet
more than wages meant to help the poor
she pours
pours on redemption
as preparation
for something greater
than even what happened
to the man across the table
she pours on smells
that tell the world
"he matters"
and then she dries it all up
soaks up the dust and dirt
so nothing remains but his new feet
the two things that will carry him places
no one's meant to go

Here too is an audio link. I just stuck a voice recorder onto my iPod, so the quality is far less than par. And I couldn't really speak at full volume because it is indeed three in the morning and normal people are asleep at this hour. Unlike me.
It's a .WAV so there shouldn't be any problem playing it but let me know in the comments if you have issues.

She Pours


Goodnight.