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Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Vertigo, The Elusive

Step inside a satire.  Make an unfresh pot of coffee.  Consider all to be a kaleidoscope of things to come.  Donate your savings to the breakdown of humanity.  Take a verb and run with it.  Slide down the ferris wheel.  Contradict the terms of living.  Speak with the dead and revel in the life they lead.  


stars turns to clouds.  Pour a cup of tea.  Enjoy a crumpet or two.  Or three.  The world turns as you stand still.  Maybe you should turn with it.  Hamsters on a wheel.  Become a fortune teller.  Predict the past.  Bite off more than you can chew.  Leave the scraps for others.  Test gravity on a balcony ledge. Smoke another cigarette.  Make promises no one remembers.  Lose weight.  Lose focus.  Lose another set of keys.  Don’t sweat the small stuff.  It is all small stuff.  Maybe God is small too.  Find the smelliest bathroom stall.  There is no toilet paper.  It figures.  Mathematical delusions.  Try not to look bewildered.  Divert the noise of silence.  Listen how it echoes off the walls.  Paint a picture with the ugliest shade of yellow.  Compare it to stick figures.  It figures.  Pet a dog.  Pet your ego.  Look for new adjectives in the dictionary.  Break a few pencils.  Read another book.  Contradict the terms. Take another pill.  And another.  And another.  There is no hope in madness.  The constant spinning.  The leap of antifaith.  Go outdoors.  Take in a breath of fresh smog.  Light a candle in the forest.  Watch it burn.  Watch it falter.  Watch as dreams turn into nightmares.  Try sleepwalking for a change of pace.  Feel comforted by the hum of a refrigerator. Wonder why there is a “d” in the word fridge but not in the word refrigerator.  Pour a glass of spoiled milk.  Feed it to the cat.  Wonder why there’s no tomorrow.  Wonder if tomorrow was yesterday and you just missed it.  Go ask the doctor.  Again.  And again.  And again.  Take a Sunday drive on Thursday.  Don’t mind the honking cars.  Crash into feeling.  Compare it to numbness.  Realize there is no difference.  Detach yourself from the unavoidable.  Find pleasure in chaos.  Make a cage out of freedom.  Change the locks.  Change the channel.  Dilute the absence.  Create conscience out of air.  Talk to a gravestone and see if anyone answers back.  Turn 30.  And 40.  And 50.  Break a mirror for good luck.  Sift the lumps out of flour.  Grow mold in the frige, minus the “d”, mind you.  Pour out the old coffee.  Go to bed.  Begin again.

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