An Animated Description Of Mr. Maps.

He saw mars but he felt neptune,

He had hoped to feel a certain strong emotion

But this is all they had to say:

"i was the son of a man, and so

We came together and we shook hands."

"we shook hands."

He often wondered what a million people

Would look like scattered randomly

Across a moonless sky, and how unlikely

It would be that they would all just

Say the obvious thing:

"you may call me brother now."

"yes, brother, i know."

He is forty two,

Five-feet-eight-inches tall,

Normally wears his curly hair long.

He has a ruddy complexion, broad

Shoulders and is barrel-chested,

Is unusually strong.

He frequently wears a full beard

And sometimes glasses.

He is a college graduate,

A talented artist, and sculptor.

Now, maps is a soft-spoken loner,

Who resents society and all organizations.

Maps fancies himself a ladies' man.

He is an avid chess player,

Smokes cigarettes, and a pipe.

He is a beer drinker and loves to eat.

Maps is a man of widespread interests,

Who might very well be living abroad.

He felt lost be he felt pretty intensely good,

And he woke up screaming having dreamed

Of a color he had never seen before:

"i went to bed and to sleep, it was so

Unexpected, it really was frightening,

And i saw pretty much the same thing

Embedded in my pillow."

He had no trouble recognizing patterns

In the most delicate arrays of tangled lines,

But he had a strange fixation on partaking

In nefarious things:

"stealing, lying, cheating, gambling,

Fornicate..."

He saw red, but he thought five,

He was pleased to find his road trip

Was enhanced by number-color synesthesia:

"my trusty rosinante bounds along the road

Very well, leaving the friendly aroma

Of donuts and chicken tenders

Hanging in the desert air."

He willed away the miles while quixotically

Attempting to reclaim his inner child,

He was embrangled and enmeshed in

Something far too loud to comprehend:

"i want all of the american people

To understand that it is understandable

That the american people cannot

Possibly understand."