sadness makes me build a flying carpet use it as a bath mat

sadness makes me wear yellow
sadness makes me join the soccer league
my team is yellow and I am a fullback
later on a forward
then a goalie
I can play any position and I am still sad

sadness makes me acquire
acquired tastes like baseball cards
sadness makes me envious and confused
it takes away my sense of center
it takes away my frame of reference
I am an encyclopedia of verse
I have modernism and postmodernism
deep in my heart I have the renaissance
deep in my heart I am an early modern travel narrative
I am still sad

sadness makes me run wild
it turns my trousers blue and black
it makes me worry about pockets
it cuts my ankles
even when I am wearing polka-dotted socks

you are a knife
you are a hang glider
you are my fear of crocodiles under the bed utterly conquered
twister, come and fly with me
come and we will go
with the cows and the rooftops
up

-Tay


































The secret message about this poem is that I wrote it while listening to Super Freak and I am wicked happy about that.


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