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John Denver's hang-glider (Free verse) by horus8
Bobbing fluorescents...
Hot pink, electric blue nylon
Wing, waves, slight breeze...
Sunset, albatross eyeing up the
situation. Always looking out
for a lazy moment to preen
and then one leg.
Spanning the remnants of music
and water. I can vaguely hear
a blowhole off in the distance.
If I was not so hypothermic and disoriented.
Treading for my life. I bet I
could even imagine how its spray
might feel; if my saturation currently
was instead a desert, a dune, a Gila
monster's paradise, and me oh my oh was not
so awash with thirst in sun burnt laziness.
Is that a dingy dinging?
The bark of a sea lion?
The fin of a Maeko shark?
When I last hugged a tree?
It was for dear life.
I had been on peyote for days,
and I was convinced that if
I squeezed hard enough.
It would pull me in for good.
Current, riptide, undertow.
All fine examples of secret movement.
Moon, blood, women.
Yes, I'm awake. More bright
eyed and bushy tailed then that
hare who shunned holes for pipes
and slippers with drumsticks.
Fast, but not proud.
A warm milk spoiled.
Cycles, poles, reproduction.
In my past life I was a square
boulder from Mu.
Then some surly native went and
carved me into a giant head with
exaggerated ear lobes and lips.
Doomed to fall face first.
I did.
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