Digression

.

I digress,

Refuse panoply of orchestral movement

Ignore metaphorical meaning

Instead prefer to strike up

Calliope’s trite popularity;

A pathetic attempt

Providing entertainment.

Mere repeats of carnival themes,

Endless Ferris wheel whirl,

Redolent of cloying cotton candy reek,

Bored sideshow carnie promises,

Tempting the locals, a quarter a head,

For a chance at experiencing

Disappointing peep shows,

Just G-strings and pasties;

Or, at a nickel a throw, impossible wild riches

To be had in clanging, rigged arcades.

My fingers malinger,

Discover exciting, new ways

Not to create, narrate,

Define incarnate

Macrocosm of life.

The question being: Is it willful,

This laxity of function, loss of

Expected poetic discourse 

Or an involuntary consumption?

Digesting all of what should be

Denying the essential, allowing

Digression into literary cliché?