You Know
Surely I have swallowed my own tail by now.
Been round and round like a hoop rolling in
a dusty yard.
Chewed and swallowed and regurgitated
and chewed and swallowed again.
Even my seven stomachs can’t digest this
random generator of a world; this multiplicity
of found objects.
You should have been warned when you saw
my bookshelves, my odd assortment of
keepsakes and pictures.
You should have known what you were in for.
I can’t seem to crawl out of this world I have
assembled around my Self.
This Self that has become grossly inflated and
expanded to contain all it touches.
Nothing new, nothing new, nothing new.
Just rehashing the same old barren ground.
—But maybe someday that same old ground
will reveal the tunnel to China I started when
I was a child, and I’ll go so far I’ll fall out the
other side, and keep falling—
up, up, into the sky where it’s always night,
up into the never-ending
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Did you have your poems posted on poetry.com? That website just up and vanished.
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