I Knew This Would Happen!
So, That Really Helps...
Laughter To Soothe
Everywhere, Honey Bliss.
The Spirit Of It,
And The Glare Of
Animal Intensity...
Something About
The Vagus Nerve
And A Nexus Of
Neuro-Transmissions
Staged In Bizarre
Entanglement.
It's So Fulfilling,
How Could I Not...
CARE.
-Gray Squirrel
10-13-2025
In my many years before the mast
I’d seen rocks and shoals conspire
To ground me down to powder
Till I was just dust in the wind,
And I’d never even been to Kansas.
I was useless as a one-armed paper hanger,
Skilled in the geometer’s art,
But no closer to infinity
Than the day I’d started out.
Just a journeyman aesthete
Dressing drywall plaster
With those tapestried patterns
Favored by the rich and famous.
But, being a lifelong learner,
I learned to breathe.
I learned to eat.
I learned to say, “No.”
I became a student of the universe,
Composer of the mini-verse,
Somewhere to the left of Earth.
Mainlining the vagus nerve
On the highway leading home.
And there’s no place like home.
I must be doin’ somethin’ right.
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