NOW I'M SLEEPING UPSIDE DOWN

Seconds rip along an axis of eyes.

 

Every moment is one I could stretch to infinity;

Timeless it hovers among rushes on heat lamps.

 

And I want another…

And another.

 

I don’t remember how long I was sitting in the corner. Must have been at least a week. The stripe that runs up the back of my leg had moved, and all the people were filtering in and out …find a spot . You know? Find a spot and give some chase. The bell tinged at the bar, and the girl with the loud air, she smiled impressively.

 

“ I think I’m stuck on this disc.” I said to her.

 

She looked up with blank embarrassment. I could tell that from her look she never had a disc in her life. Her eyes were like cold peacocks. Her lips a thin line.

 

I was sitting in the corner, then I was sitting at a rectangle. There were fabulous love lines inscribed in the paneling, and undomesticated wafers bending in the stagnant air.

 

“I’d like some rules and regulations please.”

 

Certainly.

 

I was sitting at a rectangle, then I was standing in line. Looking back and forth with the back of my head, and staring into the penetrating blue liquid eye of the sky, absorbing the lapis grey that only concrete and warm hands can imitate; I was feeling.

The object of wonder had a red glow, and a reflective halo of glass and soul brothers.

He was sporting mental karate and low slung hot creepers. People would tiptoe if they could on asphalt, but they were clanging in expensive leather. Charming and frustrated, they avoided eye contact. Then it happened. The tingle at the edge of the calling. The backwards time suck that makes seconds go in reverse, and suddenly I was…

 

In an instant I was down a street and up a street. Walking over crunchy gravel in a warm Summer water edged light playing on ripples night, and cars droning moment. Leaning against hot brick paper due got a date got to read more moment. Sneaking snaking where am I going to go, got to get together, got to get together now, ask me, ask you, let’s just go somewhere dark moment…

 

And then it was over.

The whir of a truck passing, people laughing, people leaving, me walking home.

And then it was over...