it's a worthwhile youth, really
wired together by realism and surreal
inquiries preceding the longest jumps
and happiest falls

delirium comes naturally, set into the
whispering trees soon to be enhanced with
visual technologies from your sunken
hungry couch, laden with hopes and aspirations
killed as often as lifted boulders

free the tiger, free the only place
for monstrosity, electric lights, emotion
squeezed like toothpaste from heavy
lips


is there no answer
                                         for

tonight as a night of submerged intellect
tonight as a night of dimly persistent dreams
as a night of dry baths, of words gone stale in the
face of the listener

you who are vibrant, come
shine a little closer