Wake up
I wake up pawing at the sleep crust
On my compound eye
Wake up
Six sides of such familiar scenes
I fall to slumber by
My chest like soil
I feel breakable
I'm boiling in the air
And my heart is no longer there
Perhaps my tired mind
Was scattered by the drugs or by
This constant westward motion
And my inner ears exploded
Maybe some fragments of my skull
Cut up my brain
Or I never truly found myself awake
My body starts to shake
And there's a knock
At my bedroom door
The chief clerk and my mother's voice
I'm cowering in shadows
And the light is slipping through
My absence causes silence
And then angels hit the ground
Let us in or we will smash this damn door down
I'm good with hanging on the ceiling
Eating bones two times a day
If I get to hear those somber strings
I'm nearly mummified
This apple in my back is like
A bullet from a war I never started
I'm pulled apart and
I've given up
Now there's no knock
At my bedroom door
Nobody is worried anymore
It's gone
There's no translation of my
Odd alien language
How could I become so stupid
All my gold youthful exuberance
Has been muted
I'm diluted and I'm rooted
Still and fruitless
I am useless