Blooming, Buzzing

Conifers spreading their needles on suburban shag
Ornaments shining, hanging from the lowermost
Calipers spreading, measuring the dip and drag
We were entwining ribbons round the whipping post
It's time you took just a little
Time to look just a little closer
And that argument you thought was airtight
Calendar pages in a 5 x 7 grid
3 or 4 spaces empty on the bottom row
Cortical greyness
Holidays appear in red [?]
Paradigm cases drifting in the undertow
It's time you took just a little
Time to look just a little closer
At that argument you thought was airtight
From the death of the novel
To the shock of the new
You've got something to prove
But no-one to prove it to
You are not a pyramid
You do not contain a king
I'd worship everything you did
If you ever did one blessed thing
One blessed thing
One blessed thing
Put your leggings on
You can watch them take your shape
Slide the leggings off
And you can watch the shape escape
It's time you took just a little
Time to look just a little closer
At that argument you thought was air-
Time you spent just a little
Time just to vent a little anger at that oracle you thought was dead right