the road of the everyday
carpets a threefold structure
plain, hillock and valley
it is sewn together by the traveller
the traveller on the front foot
the traveller of the everyday
the road of the everyday
has first-footed a level which is neither
the bliss of total travel nor the desperation of its helplessness
this road of the everyday
exchanges rises and falls
and centres evenly on their absence, one way and the other
everyday road of the everyday
cannot draw high without taking from low
and ever gone high has to follow-fall low
every day road, every day
where happy-travelling is the threadbare question
because the consequence of the highest heights is not ultimately in a route-taker’s favour
road everyday, everyday road
a plateau-like sadness travels alongside the plateau-like traveller
no extension of the up-hill excitement to the down-hill roll thereafter
road road, road road
the positive pursuit of the everyday every day, surely
starts with not footing-first groundlessly as if this loopy terrain were another
dayroad, tomorrow road, everyday
all travellers are peopled with regret
the most successful sadness, has learnt how to keep the needle steady.
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loopy routes rooted essentially nowhere
there is a limit to the life of the traveller
and length of course is no necessary indicator of step-by-step achievement;
struggle one is to get/give back all the taken by all the roads taken
two is to leave more behind for the other travellers
a desire to enhance the future of enhancement
whence those not-yet-here will build on our own built-on –
yet adding more to nowhere barely makes this somewhere;
in fact it does not
start nowhere
are nowhere
go nowhere
often the settlement on second-best
which is to make this as easy as possible for one another
as our lostness in loss can burden them
and theirs us
and after that second-best we can do for ourselves is to go nowhere together, with others
whose going should be being made easier by us
which would make it easier for us to go
despite how hard the work of making-easy really is.