Please Do Tell

Watch those lines.

Are they moving?
No?
Good.

I don’t want you
hallucinating
just yet.

Please do tell me
if you see the lines
blur or change orientation–

I’m sincerely interested
in charting perceptual fluctuations.

Hey, don’t interrupt me
while I’m talking!

I don’t care if some
orange elephant’s
coming after you,

I told you to look
at the lines,
dammit.