What Is Inside Me

Inside me is fact Poking at imagination Teasing fiction At war with piles of literature Angry poems colliding with hospital visits And funerals Inside me are Encyclopedias Constant shouting of evidence and actuality “ON SEPTEMBER 4TH 1992 JOHN DANIELS ATE 72 HOTDOGS IN UNDER 11 MINUTES.” Inside me tales of fire breathing dragons and damsels in distress set fire to fact Dragging my thoughts into a sea of what-ifs and could have-beens Algebra 2 and Stephen King pull out swords A duel Fact wins I study Fiction wins I dream Inside me is confusion Bitter opposites blending together in an attempt to hide truth The drunk man did not kill him And I see his daughter in the hospital And its all wrong I’m just dreaming But the casts tell a different story Drowsy eyes diving into my attention Inside me she is playing hide and seek Running through dreams Dodging understanding Fiction hiding fact Fact chasing fiction