Universe at Pause

I woke up

in a book of darkness

spent a day in the parlor

eating money, thinking

about painting honey

in the parlor eating money

gave me translucence

a light bulb

twisted in the socket

and gave me translucence when

down came a blackbird

and snapped

the light bulb denied

the socket when the pie was opened

I began to sing

when down came a blackbird

and snapped off her nose at the end  

that's what you have

in a universe at pause

when the pie was opened I began

to sing, I slept counting,

that's what you have

in a universe at pause

before thinking

how to color the honey

to eat the money

to count sleep, before

waking in a ledger of darkness

when down came a blackbird singing

in the dead of night to a universe

at pause, only waiting

for this moment to arise

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