vegetable soup and a licorice stick
you watch them all go round and round
dancing their pretty little dance
would you like to live in my head
its a dangerous place you know
the subway of my brain dashing past
with little people in the windows
begging you to reach for them
begging you to touch them
but you don't
no you don't
if you do you'll fall onto the tracks
and then the train'll just run you over
you know this, yes, you know, i see that.
so you don't reach out
you want to, you need to, but you don't.
you watch and wait
the train has to stop sometime
doesn't it?
yes...yes it does...and it will
© 1998 m. hughes
athenaeum
