under high superstitious ceilings,
sleep is a frightful rock.
a dungeon of paradise
where I find my old self.
& I've seen you
running through your sleep.
busted the way that you are,
mismanaged all of your dreams
in piles near the bed.
[insert some missing photograph here]I wonder
if, in the end
I will only be left
with the landscapes of my words
to haunt me.
or if somewhere,
there is some unarmed ghost of an era
who can hear these words,
without dying.