“Hello…where have you been?
I walked the world and treaded on fire
listened to music
as i watched the pyre…
something changed
and i thought it horrible
–grimacing under a grin—
and failed to breathe for a week
this heart cramped for a month.
and so it drifted:
the mind,
from one visage to the other.
and wondered about too many things.
too many things.
a million-billion,
flustering, mind-wracking handful of thoughts…
caught in an instant
that in reality was a semester
of existence.
i wasted a semester on thought?
so it seems.”