OPEN!!! Mind
y’re free to breathe
unclouded by
second-hand smoke-blowers
coughing up
hand-
-me-
-down
Freudian souvenirs
Never a moment of indecisive-
ness
y’r task
is to keep a sensible altitude
above the smog-line
and drag deep
on pure oxygen
while they pollute the atmosphere
w/ eager fartings
of textbook
wisdoms
it is
important to enter-
tain loud company
make them feel
welcome)
(though in reality
Uninvited
remain patient
as their eyes come unfocused
and settle on a distance
just beyond
y’r
shoulder
groping for that lost word
¬¬ --left somewhere in that Space–
that would illuminate
some sudden insight
in-
to the human
con-
dition
but alas,
these transparent epiphanies
burn out
in mid-thought
leaving fragments of ½-spoken mu-
sings to hover
in the vacuum
over-
head
unable to gain
escape velocity
they slow-spiral
to earth
as
dy-
ing
em-
bers
and ignore the odor they leave in y’r clothes
(let’s call it a small sacrifice for friendship)