why would you think that?
a man with gold buys a golden statue,
and ask the workers: is that not wonder?
but he already knows the answer,
for the blushing damsels are always going
pink when they brush past - like a canvas dripping
ink, rainbow colors splattering across the sky
and a whimsical cat flies across
the dungeon: come get me,
a jailer startled, leaps from his chair
bolts the doors, eager to do his duty
till a roar came about as another cat rushes in
but the door does hold. whew. till the crash is suddenly
made. then 2 gigantic lions roared,
a quivering guard struggles to get away from
punishment undeserved; i've got fish he says,
then gets chewed up, like some toy.
it's not fair, yelled the screen maker who found
the script unpleasant - horrendous even
but canvas paintings do not spit back verbiage
confounding. it's barely in the legal agreements
the lawyers said while perusing each paper, word
by word till the dozing began to come about
with an 80 hour work week. horrendous definitely.
the cats got reducted, it simply did not meet the criteria,
since when did cats get to play boss?
the golden statue cracked a smile, then
the granite within got chipped. the workers
swore they did not take the gold home,
what's a guy got to do?
then the trembles began, it began like for a long
time till the blushing damsels got tired of turning pink,
they swore, gave their middle fingers and called it quits.
a screen writer collapses from sheer exhaustion,
this is all too much, went out for the count
and the words stopped filling the pages.
what now? no movement, no life, no death, no nothing
till even the silence got too heavy,
dense, like oppression. solid as a wall. you could feel
the pressing on all sides, they called it dark matter
but i am no quantum physicists. silence getting more heavy.
it is a reckoning, it is a warning. it is a sheer tidal wave
washing out existence. and that silence only became
important when the ink bled dry.
in that silence, some said they heard a voice,
others said they replayed events, with rainbow colored skies
faltering. some said regret, others joy.
it was like a first date, all casual and clammy at the same time,
recalling differently those fleeting space: blank pages
to be littered with muses, a pony, a donkey, or a dog.
it was like a break up, an awakening when
a lover spurned decides that promises were meant to be broken.
and of the lover?
it's strange, it's odd, it's a wonder
because silence did stretch - it s t r etc he d into e ter nity.
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