©2022 Michael Raven
driven to the edge fallen into this laughing for the tears that fisheye the view mercuric vapors-- i should have seen & indeed i did but imaged stone when pumice it served scraping flesh from bone & even then the bone ground to meal chalk rivers run white in rain i laugh at my wanton embrace of absurdity ha-ha-ha-ha good joke played on me i can see grim smiles behind those black eyes lessons learned welcome to the island of toys