We Play Ourselves

We play ourselves
 
Don’t get caught up in the question
 
‘What is the meaning of life?’
 

 
We play ourselves up one side of the mountain and then down again.
 
We play ourselves like notes propagating harmonic structures.
 

 
The unhappy solo of a parping forghorn
 
Forever bouncing a ball of thoughts
 
Against their own prison wall.
 

 
These wheels of [...]