As pebbles are thrown
into the lonesome pond
laughter splashes out
And smiles run and glide
with ripples of liveliness.

Life-- the non-negotiable
in most parts unknowable
I'll do just the possible
leave the questions to other people.

Too much wit
    where is the merit?

I sleep by day
I work by night
I earn a small salary
something seems to be right

Of course
     I have no money
     12 hours a day
     I make myself happy

Falling asleep while reading
      the next morning I forget everything

Of course, you won
no other player---you, the only one!

broken
surroundings
hidden
underneath
discrete skins
flat spots
drowning in
superficial
layers of
constricted
capillaries
walls
embed in
bleached skin

made of
salty tears
and eggshell
crystals
cutting out
the wafting
of diurnal
light-blue
ozone

resistant
coating
burning on
crusted
cheek
beneath
thin
recalcitrant
cuticles

forcing into
lamping
layers of
red-blue-
purple-yellow-
green-white-
ecchymosis
symptoms
just­if­ying
on its own