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capri0mniI just finished this one, and it amuses me. I thought it might amuse you, as well.
AN ANSWER TO A FAQ:
It's weird, but I suppose it might be kind,
When strangers ask me this, out of the blue--
Acknowledgment I have an inner mind,
(When all they see is what I cannot do).
I know the answer that they hope to hear
(Their desperate longing leaks between the seams)
Although the truth is something else, I fear:
“Not really, no. I never walk in dreams.”
I leave it there, instead of going on:
“Except, of course, when nightmares trouble me.”
Within my mind, twixt midnight and the dawn,
“Walking” means “coerced conformity.”
In really happy dreams, I belly-crawl--
True to myself, my body, brain, and all.
AN ANSWER TO A FAQ:
It's weird, but I suppose it might be kind,
When strangers ask me this, out of the blue--
Acknowledgment I have an inner mind,
(When all they see is what I cannot do).
I know the answer that they hope to hear
(Their desperate longing leaks between the seams)
Although the truth is something else, I fear:
“Not really, no. I never walk in dreams.”
I leave it there, instead of going on:
“Except, of course, when nightmares trouble me.”
Within my mind, twixt midnight and the dawn,
“Walking” means “coerced conformity.”
In really happy dreams, I belly-crawl--
True to myself, my body, brain, and all.
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Date: 2014-07-16 01:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-16 10:45 am (UTC)