from obedience [the clock is on time]
the clock is on time
because the stars fall
because all form forms time
falls on the body
freezes a book
beneath the water
because the water is an organ
because all arguments are similar
similar singularities
because we can never discover the subject
because
because is always an object
which is an object among objects
which is neither and or
because we expect to find a similar
before a different set of circumstances
being repeated for convenience
causing a similar
to seem familiar
which we think
has an experimental conclusion
similar to a set of circumstances
based on an object
that falls in the water
which is a simile
because nothing is like an egg
or a concept of an egg
because there is no apparent singular
couched in a connection between
sensible and secret powers
because the question occurs in a medium
which is a thing
among other things
multiplied times a hundred times
because
a thought is an object within a thought
an oncoming proposition
of a possible position
a reference to clocks on the body
as an object without a memory
a memory without thoughts
because the future will resemble the past
because we want our colors to match
because on a supposition
resembling something that could happen
because the hand that shook the hand
of another mislaid thought
is based on an object
that relates to the clock
because maybe
what matters is a seat
in a new convertible
because what matters is good theme music
an antidote to putting the horse before the cart
or a thought with an anecdote
because the object could swim before it could walk
like interchangeable silence is a demand
for milk in your pudding
because we are doing the doing
which is based on the bones of direction
because matter is everywhere
and like a hammer
we feel the touch before meaning
remember touch through memory
as an object with destiny
that wrote an essay
something that astonished someone
that’s now a thought in time
that has a past
that’s now newer than before
before it could ever be a question
From obedience (Factory School, 2005). Copyright © kari edwards. Used with permission of Frances Blau, literary executor.