Overexposure

He had experienced fifty years of

direct loneliness.

The close and constant contact to

the skin made him grow

like a silver-backed gorilla.

Once a nightlight, he turned into

a panther. Sitting over the clouds

there was a god of water sending

oceans in all one direction.

He could have pushed his way

out of this typhoon, this bulldozer

coming from the fingers of every

body else. Wonder Bread, though,

made him too limp to grow into that

kind of burden on earth.