I am a penny
dissolving in vinegar,
let me disappear

friends like a blanket -
comfortable long acquaintance,
snugglely warm

the path to winter,
pumpkins and fireworks, the dark
becomes magical

my head is like soup,
a thick ooze of chemicals,
a stoned lethargy

songs of suicide
and fire that dance before me,
listening entranced

micro gravity -
float like a ball of water,
fragment and shatter

sparks and firelight,
flickering shadows and steel,
the sword maker works