Mind

still hangs around, hisses, frowns, pouts that i should do more. today i carried the ceiling, it cracked and i ended with a bad back. i was told it could have been much worse. the twitches, the hiccups, the shuffling about all because those wrinkles aren't made perfect.

you say it's all under control, this chanting this odd habit to paint the sky with colored ribbons, that the canvas smells like a web - to distill out the many versions of truth. what is it? this belt can barely hold on to a a hip too

chipped, cracked, sullied tight lip. swell twice, thrice puffs the frog, still silence comes about and jaded life limps slightly

did not have life dished out on a silver platter, did not have a way out when no exit doors were in place, did not have to choose between swim or sink, publish or perish when

a cup about to fall off the table, don't tilt: a balancing act with my foot pressing at the corner of a leg, an odd angle to say the least. still, better than not doing anything

today's reality does not solve the ah ha moment we like to pretend it's all peaches and cream. no blood, no sweat, no tears, no heart aches, just a cold silence, a lukewarm towel, a dampness that neither infringes nor redeems, just - a learning curve when social norms become codes, functions, nothing spontaneous

leads to childhood, where food fell from the sky and pixies lived in the forest. do this, get that, do that, get this what simplicity!

be a blank slate, you could write whatever you wanted on me and i would not protest, you found me cute that way, adorable even.

agree to everything a salesman says, agree to sign every contract without looking, agree to take their word for it, agree never to question their reasoning, agree to simply trust their good intentions, agree to give them the benefit of doubt,

a shadow of doubt when pale detaches from ink stains, memories fragmented with time's passage breaking a hull. unable to travel more even as waves keep pushing forth, locked within this cove, sinking slowly while the skiy blue remains