By Threes

oh yeah sure

i know what

i want to

say even less

than i know

what i’m doing

i know what

i want to

do but i’m

not doing it

i know of

a number of

things i could

be doing instead

got a short

span of attention

what was that?

just going by

the numbers now

it won't add

and it won't

subtract in fact

less is more

it doesn't even

need a score

where was i

going why am

i here of

all bloody places

same could be

said of many

differing glittery things

and in saying

that just as

it inevitably was

said eventually via

a conduit of

nerve endings and

cellular chemical reactions

what got unsaid

what got unseen

and what does

any of this

babble really mean

any babble really

unheard behind the

mindless unfelt aside

the hum of

the hive, within