"LOST IN A KAFKAESQUE PRAGUE"

i am a suspension of reality
strung between
the nickel of the earth
and the argon of the sky

unable am i to move about freely

i float
more than i walk

i am a lucid dream
trapped in a fever dream

i am caught in a clutch !
the mighty spur of the bird
ascends me – we soar
above the Bohemian townland

i am the pure wish to understand
the humiliating failure to comprehend

i have no mouth yet i must scream

i have no ears
yet i still hear the sound of mad laughter

i perceive time differently

my needs are vampyric
and i make love to the moon

the boughs are burning beneath me
but who am i to care ?

i am rendered gelatinous, doomed to no form –
the final amorphous stages of human biology
is spent in humiliation

above the rustic skyline colors dance
above the earth's curvature
the shadowry of a hundred spires
of which i am one
scrape the integument of eternity

i wander about
lost like a dog
aloof like a cat
in Kafka's Prague
by twilight