Author: [[Abe Brownell|Abe]] --- I am a soft sad comet of misunderstanding I move slow across the sky I barely have a pulse I barely tickle the meter The air in my lungs is no longer at its best I am an astronaut in space is my undoing I am empty Out of sense don't ask for that As you strung out and stumbling around Assert yourself in the emptiness, **"I need an adult like I need to exist"** And I am telescoping in and away I am becoming a smaller nucleus of my former self The universe is expanding Everything is racing out Moving away The whole thing is thinning out into silence In rarefied air I have clocked out **Another day of undoing** Self sandblasted away with zero online viewing My world is impenetrable You are not allowed in **I am so lo-cated** My position is known exactly Much less my fate So far it accumulates a history in objects Primary color is escape I was gonna call support I don't feel like it anymore Don't think it's called for All those things around you The birds those trees that puddle on the roof across the street rippling in wind They are all so close Up so beside you they could be right behind you They're in your head and then They'll draw and quarter your whole means of feeling and dealing They'll put you back together with joints of gold You won't be sure what of whom to trust They'll cross your mind before you can look the other way They will be artists in residence in your aspirations They will show you: **existence is brutal** Gives you something to care about, Then for Until one or the other of you slips away Off into something else Some other self Take it off the shelf life I am not what I say My words are my deeds I create them but they are just protracted imagery You might get so close you suspect you have been redacted from reality You are in the uncanny valleys that reside in extremes This is the landscape of some form of break They'll put you back together with joints of gold Lose a little of yourself each time you burst at the seams Bits of you becoming somethings somewhere else Don't worry **I'll be back**