boundary lines        4-19-91

1 -------          too small a room/
                   too crowded/ too hot/
                   too bright/
                   hostile/
                   too too much of every thing
                   drunken/
                   i feel like dreaming

2 --------         slowing brain in the lethargic state
                   immersed in the thick of the
                   atmosphere of anesthesia
                   blind eye turned to the questioners

                   "snap to attention and listen to
                   the question...
                   do you realize what serious trouble
                   you are in?
                   it's the state verses you,
                   you know/
                   cooperate/ or die."

3 --------         anesthesia permeates this atmosphere
                   slowing the brain 
                   lighting inappropriate 
                   for any real thought/

                   a free feeling of being 
                   in spite of the circumstances/ 
                   i'm failing off/ free 
                   let this play-scene run its 
                   course/

                   the Universe
                   reigns supreme and
                   is silent to this being's
                   incessant
                   insipid harangue

                   i do not answer
                   and in my silence there
                   is the immensity of will and power