WORDCHASM

Today, I realized that I’m going to die.
I was sitting on the couch and listening to some music when some strange thoughts entered my mind:
“What if I die tonight?”
“What happens when you die?”
“Will anyone notice?”
I felt cold.  I wanted someone around me, some other person to remind me that I was still alive.  Maybe another [...]

Above my head, thick gray canopy looks like death
& its bellowing gurgle speaks to my book like death.
Pulling me under friendly tree, it occurs that I
am in more danger than before.  Hooked by death.
A perfect illustration, poisonous clouds that have
never been witnessed–eyes uncooked by death.
So I weep for all who have been touched
by disintegrating mushroom [...]