Thursday, April 24, 2014

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Do you know how long we have before the Thunder Palace activates?
                                                          —overheard during an episode of Fairy Tale

I wanna settle the score with Salamander so bad I can taste it!
                                                    —also overheard during an episode of Fairy Tale

Does pee turn to snow in icy cold?
                                                           —an actual CNN.com headline


It is not pretty, this poetry.  Or it was such a shame
when his mouth entered the happy room.  Happy
today is strange and is quite impossible to
understand.  One electric fan makes a white
noise that soothes me into sleep while one
electric humidifier (also with a fan) sings
the eternal language of chalkboard fingers.
Which I can barely type, can barely say
(chalkboard fingers), can barely
imagine myself saying.