Inanimate Objects

 

I pity inanimate objects, because they cannot move.

From specks of dust to paperweights, or a pound note sealed in resin,
plastic Santas in perpetual water snowstorms,
sculptures that appear to be moving but aren´t : I feel sorry for them all.

What are they thinking, when they arrive at a place,
do they sigh with disappointment,and when they leave, do they have regrets?

Is a sofa as happy in one corner as it is in another,
and how does the room feel about it?

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I pity inanimate objects
I pity inanimate objects
I pity inanimate objects
I pity them all

Physics isn´t fair.Is a tree as a rocking horse an ambition fulfilled,
and is the sawdust jealous? I worry about these things.

Peppercorns don´t move until they contaminate the ice-cream, three weeks later.
Is the gold in Fort Knox happy gold? I care about these things.

Some things are better left alone:
grains of sand prefer their own company, but magnets are two-faced.

No choice for sugar, but what choice could there be,
but to drown in coffee or to drown in tea the frustrations of being inanimate.

Maybe its better that way:
the fewer the moving parts, the less there is to go wrong.

I wonder about these things.

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Godley & Creme “I Pity Inanimate Objects” , FREEZE FRAME , Polydor records,1979