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.

Author: Aidan Badinger

Wharved.com I am a poet. I write poems. Titles and subjects and subsequent readership are all part of one fragmented figment of our universe, and it's nice that we take it so seriously. Hopefully the craft remains and grows stronger for our children. View all posts by Aidan Badinger