Paper PiratesThe sailboat drags through blue construction paper waters. Turbulence is high and there are many paper cuts. On Sundays it rains spit wads, but the boat is made of red paperboard and easily deflects them. The origami sailors wear black tissue paper hats and are equipped with telescopes and shurikens they use to combat paper monsters and commandeer passing vessels.Paper Pirates
But sometimes, after the background had been swapped from blue to black paper, the pirates drift into a familiar melancholy and wonder why the sea never ends...
At dawn the black paper is crumpled into a ball and lit on fire, and a sea serpent folded from a
Day 136Like a gypsy meerkat I ninja honeysuckles from the presidents fence. Savoring the sweet nectar, I scurry down the overgrown driveway and tricycle back to Pete's, where the drum circle senators await my return. I present the yellow-white fairy to the other boys wearing army pants. Pete nods and the drums begin. Sonic booms storm the ants and Pete hands me a beer, I will not forget this day.Day 136
When the trees look orange...You know it’s time to lie supine In the grass, even though the sign says GO! And tambourine brandishing swineWhen the trees look orange...
Dance round you in the ascending snow.
You know super sized kitty cats Fixed to flocks of honking balloons Mewling like prehistoric bats Can’t exist outside Saturday morning cartoons.
You know rubber duckies shouldn’t be intimidating When squeaking by, and decide you must have died Cuz everyone’s wearing glass slippers and stomping
Their feet like sex-crazed elephants rushing poolside.
You know this, overcome by bliss, &n
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"You stand in my way
With nothing to say
You think you're the world"
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