2030. FOR THIS MOMENT I OWNED THAT DREAM

FOR THIS MOMENT

I OWNED THAT DREAM

(non-existence, again)

(Inconsequence : like jail, like a fixation on counting

days down. No meaning at all. I pale by comparison.

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Now there is nothing less than that famed 'zero' - the

piper's own ticket to the flute factory, a one-way ride

back to oblivion, steerage in the schooner Mayhem,

pants with the legs sewn shut. I am lost in a thicket

of everything with a 'de' - delusion, despair, despondency,

desperation, you know all the rest. It's demeaning to me.

-

I walked the ice-clogged river, listening to the groan

and croak of every slab. I want to find one, to ride, to

ride, far, far out to sea. Somewhere I will never be.

-

No more, no more, no more, for me.

Yes, for this moment I owned that dream).