Who put the sun out? ~ I'm exhausted We're just chilling, the sun and I Oh, I'm also with my buddy, the Earth Come to think of it, all of us are dying Yeah, I don't know what it looks like How is it that I don't have to look outside Open or close my eyes To see it already, in my mind As detailed as could be in real life Here I lay in my bed as my muffled heart beats Living it up in my head, in my stead, in the heat Yellow sun drips betwixt the streets Just as a lit candle sits with its wits pooling at its feet Similarities tied with a string back to me Inward, deep light seeps Daylight flees, that the night repeats And sunset sweeps into my bedroom Stop. Again here I am with my mutterings My cognitive sputterings Oh, to express the utter torment of yourself Let's talk about the room Twin windows, therein flow ray-of-light hoverings Through swishing beige gray coverings Shapes traipse the drapes in a thousand different places Not a thought my mind permanently embraces It paces Braces, considering the spaces Left from lightning flash memories my presence erases YOU FLASH PAST, LIGHT! Your crawl is relative Aglow through the glass, set my bedroom ablaze As the giant tilts away All sunshine muttering the end of its days See the mental eruption of colors, swirling, spinning, spanning, panning out to reveal the art The heart, star-flecked light; the flickering maze I just felt like pitching those words into the dark All this to make a mark Does the sun take mind in parting ways? Hah, Would it notice what happens when it never stays? Leaving checkerboard shade in my cityside haze Making fluttering light where the cloud-sheep graze Cluttering each of my windows’ rectangular frames Shivering golden beams in flames Were you expecting this to rhyme? See those drapes, ever dimming, screens swimming in the sun death Curtains like semi-transparent accordions And their transparency is indeed reciprocal to mine Oh, my, the irony I must be in transparency debt Don't forget Guess who caught the enormous space nightlight in its final breath And I'm sinking into my sheets Gray blankets enshrouding what I think I hear my voice in everything I'm writing Meanwhile barking, buzzing, chirping Nightfall propagated, critters usurping Beyond me It's quiet again Guess it took long enough for me to write this up Hey, who put the sun out? I can see things I know I don't really see All around me, the imaginary Alive in my mind, in real time My hair in coiling strands writhes, suspended Slow rippling extension from my neck Wet and glistening and drifting In a pool inside my head Cold. likethetruthlikethetruthlikethetruth What were you expecting me to prove? My imaginings fully outstretched My head is pooling the same way the sunlight left When the sun went, ‘Doh! Time to go and play dead.’ Water seals me within itself I'm in an envelope Who opened it? I'm a letter? Who wrote it? Machinations of mathematics Aren't we all of a design? Hush I did it again I didn't think I would What of it? As it so happens Somewhere in Ohio Raspberry Bubly and orange gatorade Were all that I needed to see her face I wouldn't have known it by the taste Looking out the glass at the lapis lake Did we fake? Somewhere in Illinois Just give me a word, and I'll remember you Forever connected by association Takes me instantly back to the same location Time moved on, I didn't with you I think, I thought, I knew it flew Somewhere in Maryland While today remains the day that this was written I'm sitting on a bed, wondering who you are Somewhere in Georgia, 2017 I knew nothing more than what I wanted to Or so I thought Aren't we all obscene? Fleeing the scene? What do you mean, what do I mean?
