You pace a room full of forgotten thoughts
And find yourself hanging
Down
From the peeling wallpaper
It is yellowed and crisp
In your hands
A tangled man
Made of Spiderwebs
Asks you why.
“why,” he asks. “Do you always fall parallel to the earth
But perpendicular to everyone else?”
You toss him away on a puff of breath.
You tell him you like falling, thank you very much,
And fall out of a shattered window
And you are reabsorbed into the nighttime.
Sep 8, 2010
Sep 8, 2010 at 11:26 PM UTC
You pace a room full of forgotten thoughts
And find yourself hanging
Down
From the peeling wallpaper
It is yellowed and crisp
In your hands
A tangled man
Made of Spiderwebs
Asks you why.
“why,” he asks. “Do you always fall parallel to the earth
But perpendicular to everyone else?”
You toss him away on a puff of breath.
You tell him you like falling, thank you very much,
And fall out of a shattered window
And you are reabsorbed into the nighttime.
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