huckleberry finn.

the moment that i laid eyes on you time simply ceased to be the globe stopped its spinning and the lights started dimming and the heathens began their fevered singing and i forgot just who i was the instant that your eyes fell upon my frame i got thrown back into reality again and i crash landed feet-first into a chair it was fair we both had to stifle our giggling you spoke smoothly almost orchestrally some sort of poetic sing-song heavily laced with the accent of the place that i hope to someday find you "chicago, chicago, that toddling town..." i hope i find you soon wearing that same sleepy looking smile and your news-boy cap and that shoulder strap sack that i'd like to think you kept stuffed to the brim with college-rulled ball-point ballet but that was years ago now there's more than just arrhythmias and murmurs and excited flesh between our heavy chests now there's lines drawn between our toes lines scratched into the sands of time with the force of lightning's strike worry lines telephone lines state lines lines that furrow across the face of the map things tend to fade out like that the way the last track on your favorite record fades slowly to the sound of a skipping needle i'm still unsure if i imagined you into existence or if you only existed in my imagination either way i wish you'd have stayed a while longer

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