The girl sat aimlessly, watching breaths of smoke shaped animals
running around each other, and in the stale air, chasing for tails
Her life has become strangely confused by fixed ideas
A pastime where her preconceptions became truth,
A dangerous web of glorious facts, now coiled around her window and trying to escape

Left for a while to soak up
she’s got it, she’s figured it out
It’s taken a long time but it’s real and beautiful
She smiles, she giggles, she sometimes cackles at her brilliant mind

Like some witch on acid, she uses her eyes to rip at the wallpaper
Climbing down and melting the floor, seeing black holes
And she wants to jump down..

To live no more

Her mind began to overflow, it exploded eventually
So, she lit up a cigarette
And watched for hours, playing with a cat and stoking his tail

08/02/2004

Author's Note:

Posted on 08/01/2004
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