short, fantasy-like stories have been passing
through my subconsciousness every quarter
hour like a stalker who cannot decide on prey;
eyes are not hurting or bloodshot or heavy or glazed over
like one who has not slept for days while hunger
has disappeared too quickly making no sense at all
as just the opposite it should be and on that
which we all know is not healthy and then it appears,
circus ponds forming at the edge of mental nothingness,
an existential view digressing into sitting on the
bench with Sartre and being transformed into
a meaningless Kafka like mutant fate; and yet,
all these satirical themes hang from mental ceilings
as if providing decorative narratives for Senior Proms
in a Middle Eastern land where none of the rituals,
it would appear, were ever practiced once even;
divorced indifference practices Washington's Minuet
in powdered wigs and three cornered hats while
speculation perceives more documents signed;
stories of adults being adults in adulterous ways
manifest openly in my shallow mind this day
like a coincidence readies itself to be repeated
and presentation skills are practiced unwillingly;
racks of lamb hang in coveted galley galleries
waiting to be carved and served to frustrated
angry listeners who have yet to hear the completed
version of our their newly released thoughts;
bodily function difficulties are the last members
of the parade but the first to greet the morning
once their words have been written and all the
flavored coffee drowned like in the Boston Harbor;
but still, there was no sleep this night like before
when indulging too much on chemo and steroids.
16Aug14