This appears in a pre-2010 issue
of Down in the Dirt magazine.
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I tried to get off
at my train stop
after sitting for almost
two hours reading
schopenhauer
with my knees bent
against the seat
in front of me
I missed the stop
because I had
pins&needles
to the point
of total numbness
I couldn’t
feel the ground
& I fell
people thought
I was drunk
so I sat back down
& read some
more of
schopenhauer
as people
still stared
& I laughed
inside my head
that this whole
world comes
down to a system
of highly sensitive
twisted ribbons
& that someday day
like bare branches
of winter trees
snap in the wind
& fall to the ground
fertilizing the grass
these inner
ribbons will
shrivel&all
go black
