After Reading Too Much Phillip K. Dick

 

 

We have no idea who the thieves stealing our nightmares are,

no motive, but worst of all, like suicide bombers, they’re amongst us,

and whatever security we thought we had in dreams, is gone…

 

Indifference a shell of misfortune, hatred a weak shield,

retaliation circles back to indifference… hatred becoming ominous nothing.

 

We discover happiness in the yet uncarved sculptures of our Being,

worn-out pockets, really, and otherwise well beyond our grasp…

Chipping away, chipping away, chipping away, at blue granite

 

Is it the mare’s distance to foal? – a little nussing, that’s all –

Or are there flames, and we’re running violently wild?

 

 

©2008 wfairbrother

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