Frayed Threads

"Sumpt'in didn't take right in that boy."

(sitting at my word processor 

caring only for the beautiful/damned

world we find ourselves in) …

I'm only so upset because I've seen the

way it could be…crazy/sane…

surreal/delightful…beautiful/real/ephemeral

the paradox in the lotus…

now, like Appolinaire, I've run out of strength,

and can only praise those that still love me.