Spaceman

sample: "hey"

a grinning empty eyesocket moon hoists itself up into the pale evening sky

and hangs there like a day old suicide

a stickey shower of radioactive moonbeams

cascades from the tops of nearby urban structures

causing indescriminate loss of limb to several innocent passers by

as well as general madness all around

sample: "hey"

I survey the damage from a blind alley doorway

to which i have been glued for most of the day

having been inadvertantly papered over by a bleary eyed bill poster

sometime before dawn

eventually i muster the energy to extricate myself from my predicament

as it is time for me to make my apoiinted rounds

of all the nearby potential sources of aluminum cans

it is my sworn duty to collect all the cans in the area

and convert them into us currency at a secret government installation

whose location is known only to me

later, having acquired enough money to keep myself in the lifestyle to which i am accustomed

i find myself back on the street

i scan the crowds until i see someone who is obviously insane

and then i follow that person until they go into a building or get into a car

in order to make sure that they dont do anything crazy

while i am engaged in this pursuit

a nonstop stream of firetrucks and police cars

race up and down the boulevard

sirens blaring looking for

invisible emergencies no one seems to notice

after a while i move on to the rest of my agenda for the evening

scheduled activities inlcude a short but passionate affair with

a curvaceous bottle of my favorite alcoholic beverage

presently i find myself holding court from a bus stop on

the corner of Commerce and Pearl

from whence i regale the passing crowds

with my perceptive insights into the nature of reality

an appreciative throng hangs on my every word

it begins to rain

but everyone is concentrating so intently on me

that they are oblivious to the downpour

the water makes me light

i begin to levitate

i float up off the sidewalk and past the top of the telephone pole

a thousand eyes follow me upward

a big black cloud opens up

and i zip through it at full tilt

going faster all the time

look at me

im above the clouds

the moon is laughing at me

look at me

the earth is getting smaller

look at me

im out in space

look at me

im a space man

sample: "hey"

look at me

im a space man

sample: "hey"

look at me

im a space man