I took his plastic tears
hurled them to infinity
and waited..
They came back but
the tears were gone,
they were replaced by lollipops
the kind that taste funny
and contain rubber eyes
He had one eye
and he was standing close to me,
watching me throw
his plastic tears and crying.
Crying hard because
he hated the taste of the lollipops
"They are looking at me!"...he said
and I thought
how peculiar it is
to be frightened by
caramelized stares.
Dead stares, covered in hard candy
tickling the mind of a madman
who keeps eating them anyway.
Fivos R Drymiotis