Light Show
Listen:
I am everyone and I am everything.
Every bird and every bee, I’m the leaves on every single tree,
From every regal creature fit to feature on a silver screen
to every scene of roadkill spread obscene across a busy street.
Contain the multitudes in every song I sing? a surely Herculean feat…
I play pretend; I tend to get a little hyperbolic.
In my defense, to render my kaleidoscopic vomit
through a normal lens would end up feeling violently myopic.
Whatever.
If I could tune you to the frequencies I usually rock with,
I’d watch your dome explode in a barrage of bottle rockets.
That doesn’t mean I wouldn’t enjoy the fireworks.
And I think you would too, for that matter.
BONUS PACK!
Self definition
Constitutive enrichment
Solicit imprecision and slip into the prism—
That’s the stuff.
Use a bigass word every now and again. Something arcane; from the annals.
Encounter trinkets and imbue them with value. Collect them.
Unearth an old phrase that nobody has heard this century and inhabit that world.
Inhabit a story you know to be false because it is Fun and Inconsequential.
Seek novel ways of inhabiting.
Write a poem. Realize you’re not done. Write another.
Your turn.
Let’s see what we can make.
I want it honest, want it joyous. It’s magic, you know.
Treat it as such.
Low stakes blast holes in ceilings.
There are rules, of course,
but therein lies your first canvas.
Structure precedes variance. You knew that.
Whimsy 101