Dark Places
When the rest of the world seems like a movie reel
Spinning incessantly
Spitting useless nonsense
Faster than you can process,
But it's playing a beautiful picture
You've heard
But you can see for yourself
Because you're busy hinding under your seat.
Making friends with chewed gum
And the other
Less-then-savory
Messes on the floor.
When you're on ths floor,
Under your seat,
It's hard to raise your head
Cemented to the floor
By melted Cabbage-Patch Kids
Even harder to get up
'Cause of the other
Sticky bitter butter messes
Holding you down.
But the hardest thing is breathing.
Even the air is sticky here.
Sticky and used.
But while you're here,
Struggling to breathe,
The incessant reel keeps spinning
Spectators keep ogling
And chewed popcorn kernals continue to parcipitate
Onto your now butter-stained shirt.
But its dark here on the theater floor.
And no one sees the stains
Or the broken remains
Of once-gnawed gummy bears
Bedazzling your jeans.
No one sees except the other messes.
And what do they care?