awake.
raucous R.E.M.
"it's been a bad day
please don't take a picture."
before 6 are
15 milky minutes
where a girl I once knew,
acts as a caricature.
and oh nudity!
like painted carnival booths...
muscles and skin of delacroix
or el greco!
one more canister
of clicking slides--
noah's ark behind a cardboard city,
a curious and falling pilot,
and a perpetual staircase of escape--
time's up.
