The starting gun

To start,
to begin,
to commence,
to initiate.
Which
will you do?
to commence is, perhaps,
too functional,
like the first sew of the needle ...
to initiate
is too intellectual, perchance,
something you do with a process
devoid of the human, all functional, too technical
- to begin, maybe – but that’s what
- days do diurnally, lives unbeckoned -
- no – now is the time to start,
- because that’s not reeling dawns round reeling clouds, no,
- that’s what you do with the trickety keroose of an engine when the road beckons and petrol ain’t an isuue.
- turn the ignition, now