mop handle doldrums staring through space into universe drooling goon doodling cartoon caricatures of lost loves silt accumulates at the corners of his fleshy mouth soft movements of incoherent mumblings give rise to spit lines stretching and contracting green bodied fly occasionally drawing ire if not attention the world seems out of focus though the grime coated glass passersby unaware of the squalor of a man possessed frantic scribbling by a chewed up #2 held in scarred and stained paws webbed by genetics battered by an uncaring world unflinching girl frozen grimace geologic