dream.2: the cell

by luis - Capricorn

in a stone is where i live:
trapped
within 4 walls 
each a meter thick.

plenty of O2 in here:
comes from the unit A/C.

there’s a vent on the wall
above my head
there it stays 
blowing sanity upon my face.

cracks.
on. 
this. 
wall, I watch 
	along its thin jagged lines
				obtuse like coursing veins
				on my retinas, they feed
				sifting across my head

				all to softly,	I’ll be dead.
							




soon now, not a second late, you see. 
					God, well, he’s in the corner there
					dangling on his tattered strings
			above this loosened head upon my neck.  is it all a dream, you ask?
					all gashed and snapping at the seams?

a trapeze act 
it seems
this life has been.
a balancing act 
inside this very head
& I cry [the end] at 7 
laughing clowns below
who won’t ever break this fall.  this last feat.  finale.
off the top of my bed.
Birth sign: Capricorn
Date created: 2000-08-17 19:28:05
Last updated: 2021-03-03 14:42:37
Poem ID: 57317

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