Recklessly relaxing

I'm shutting down again
Why not?
Nothing in this room 
Matters to me
 
There is a hum
It is someone saying 
Something 
I smell cologne and coffee
 
Fluorescent lights sear
My eyes
There's no shadows 
No contrast 
 
I turn my head 
Slowly 
Like a giant 
Robot 
 
I scan the pale faces
Of the men and women 
Around 
Me 
 
I can see a window
There is sunshine 
And warmth and breeze
And luscious leaves
 
There could be 
a mythical monster
Or an alien
Watching me watching him
 
Or a female satyr 
With fuzzy horsey 
Hindquarters 
And tiny twirly horns
 
A bird appears
In the magic window 
It has a laser beam beak
It can see through metal
 
My head takes off 
And hovers
Everyone is admiring 
My flying head 
 
I pop through the rubbery
Window pane
Like a soap bubble
Of rainbow membrane
 
I speed through the trees
With my head only 
And it's glowing 
Tiny jet thrusters 
 
Another flying head!
I will give chase
And sting him 
With my neon eye cannons
 
Something lame is happening
My name is being said
By a giant 
An echoing giant voice 
 
My free and flying head
Smashes through the hard glass 
And bounces across 
The table to me 
 
All the pale people turn 
To stare at me
I clench, I startle.
My head is burning and red
 
A brown and noble 
Stream of life
Steaming and spreading 
My coffee is free
 
From the oppressive mug 
It spreads rejoicing 
Into my employers laptop
And into infamy.
 
 
 

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