Suprise!

Internal panther pulling can get you in trouble

with the other side. It all depends on the alliances. Are

you familiar with alliances? These are dedications of devotion

between at least two partners. In this way, might

countries expand, or be won or lost, or be weighted down

with the super tonnage of exploding horribleness,

bringing a weak person into further weakness and crippling

the strong into snowflakes. O, for my own sake,

I have be traveling vast roads yanking large cats

from my vital organs. Each one screams the same death wish.

Each one eats a meal from my palm. There is no

room for junkies and cutthroats, laze about bobs or freak

shows. In this cab of doom there is only room for us.

You are permitted a suitcase that is no bigger than a regular

kitchen sink. Are you familiar with this particular size? You

could look up ideas on lines for further analogies, but for

now trust in your imagination. It is stronger than what you know.

It is hairy and on fire. It can spit you a toad

or rain teeth. It can flee the room you have set on fire. Even

if something awful happens, it will drink you into a teardrop.

Just now, for instance, the door rang.

Mr. Exhausted

Sometimes a thought is recorded for some

reason that is very mercurial and stupid.

You get caught leaving peanut butter on the counter!

You leave crumbs all over the bathroom!

These little sick teardrops spill from the jowls of the tired.

The weak and lonely weep and place phone calls.

Often, no one is home.

On other occasions, the whole neighborhood awakes.

On these night, like so many times past, the kindling is

kept in the mattresses and also stuffed into underwear.

The whole world set ablaze with bleary wakefulness.

Do you remember what it's like to go sailing?

Have you ever been upon a boat? They sort of tilt and tilt back

again quickly as the waves bounce jumpy. It can be

disorienting for a person accustomed to a more stable

foot pedestal. This is why I mention it. Suppose the whole

world drowned, how would you know I was gone?