and suddenly

[image: buses]

and suddenly, i'm breathing through a thin straw. myopic fish lens. frog legs and cigarette ash water. i'm tired. i ache for a reason, seething for simple solace. don't throw me assumptions, juvenile words. show me dolor, unchained and sounding. don't irk me like wet sand in my shoes. sit, have some tea. talk. tell me what's on your mind, as it were... lest you be plagued by the weight of heaviness.

"Das Leben ist schwerer als die Schwere von allen Dingen." --Rilke
(The heaviness of life is heavier than the heaviness of all things.)