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A Cave

Andrew H. Oerke

I’m in a cave. The cave is dark. The cave’s my skull’s
mammoth cavern full of tourists with torches
revealing my calcified glial cells,
my waterways, and those mirror-clear pools
laminated by the light, sold for a sou.
Memory and Dream live down here somewhere
waiting to draw me away from the crowd
to entelechies governing the evolution
of my experiences, not just my thoughts.

Is Memory not my home? There’s a kid
in the cave: He ducks behind stalactites;
he licks up the calcium drippings
and pretends to be stiffened to a statue
so what’s new, Kookie; Kookie, lend me your comb
and I’ll crank out a sitcom for your ennui.
Pull back and behave; there are readers around
They buy tickets, notice you into being.
They are also your home under the roof
of the covers of a book. Andy, don’t leave that cave,
you nitwit, don’t let the book fly away
on cardboard wings and leave you in the lurch
in the cave of your mind where it is quiet and dark.

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