The Alignment of Planets

EvilToasterElf
EvilToasterElf Posts: 1,119
edited December 2004 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
The Alignment of Planets

I roll out of bed with the remnants
of a dream pulling me like an aching
lover back to the sheets.
There I remain in the trance
of speeding down moonlit highways
on a motorcycle I’ve never learned
how to ride.
I pass cars with vanity plates that
will never exist, filled with tired
motorists going to dream vacations
that will never end, but never began.

As I put my feet on the ground
and tear away the mental tapeworms
of nerve impulses, I do not feel a violent
disruption of worlds colliding.
One world fades slowly,
like a depressed swathe of Earth
rising to meet the mountains,
after the weight of a glacier recedes.

As the spray of a shower begins to
splash my face, and I begin to lather
my body, my eyes remain closed
and the world of sinks and toilets
disappears for another fifteen minutes.

My body finds itself among the
tropical fish, blindingly colorful.
When I peak my head out of the water
and swim onto shore to towel
off, I find myself dressed in winter
clothes on the sandbar, and from that
beach always drive impossibly
back to class, on a cold day
in upstate New York.
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  • ISN
    ISN Posts: 1,700
    so simple and complete....I love it.....
    ....they're asking me to prove why I should be allowed to stay with my baby in Australia, because I'm mentally ill......and they think I should leave......
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    It's good, the tension between dream epiphany and flat journalese. I like it.
  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    I liked the unexpected humor in your line "the world of sinks and toilets". :)
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    justam wrote:
    I liked the unexpected humor in your line "the world of sinks and toilets". :)

    Me too. There's another poem in there. Seriously.
  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Me too. There's another poem in there. Seriously.

    You're right. Maybe one about shiny white bathroom fixtures, a steamy mirror and a frosted window, fraying towels, a rubber plug on a chain, drains.... :p

    There's lots of material in a bathroom. :D
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  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,389
    You know, when I wake up in the morning, I feel the exact same way :-)
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • EvilToasterElf
    EvilToasterElf Posts: 1,119
    Thankyou all for your comments, it's always those simple human habits which seem to strike deeper than the attempt to turn overarching thought and "deep" ideas, into human habit

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