TheFeatheredSleep – Distracted and not
The day your father died
the day the towers burned
the day she found out she had a tumor
I was doing something irrelevant
caught on auto pilot
like the time the door bell rang and
the pizza man handed over a bag
how did you think a bag could contain a large box?
you said as you ran after him shouting
you gave us the wrong order!
but he sped away on his small red bike
because he too was on auto pilot
and we dreamers who
find reality too hard
yet strive to know
we are often and regrettably lost
choosing puzzles over clarification
wandering the halls of the VA
in search of meaning
watching ruinous faces lose their facades
but when you had your first seizure
in the toilets and everyone began
to scream
I recalled my cousin seizing in the field
full of pollen and dragon…
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