sounds?

by intre-alude

Posted to Action Poetry on 2004-03-25 16:03:00

Parent message is 625773
i hear nothing.
silence.
unrelenting lonlyness.
black as night and wide awake.
i look out and see nothing…
there is no moon tonight.
there are no birds in the trees or crickets in the weeds.
there are no cars zooming by or planes flying high.
there is nothing.
there is only the screaming in my own head.
as loud as a fuckin jet plane telling me to just open my mouth and scream as loud as i fuckin can.
to set up my drumset in the middle of the street at 3 am and beat the shit out of them until im draged away, thrown in a cop car, and hauled off to jail.
this is not contentment.
this is utter silence.
not even the sound of my own breath escaping my lungs.
this is a big city.
there are a lot of lights in the distance.
but it seems everything is sleeping.
it always seems everything is sleeping.

go back to sleep
go back to sleep.