Listen, my listener!
Observe, my observer!
Today we take an insignificant peek
Into the magical world
Of otherworldly otherness
Fear of nuclear annihilation
And sleep deprivation
Whatever I say
I say only if I may
Except for today
What have we here?
A big bad bear bully
And his lieutenant
Agent Orange of the land of agent orange
What a world we live in!
And here is the Deranged Nameless Soldier, a protector of territorial assets and of his inborn right to exercise his many personal oddities
Before he departs to fend off the traitors of the human race
He must speak with **her**
au parc des princes...
.
Now you ask if I'm insane...
Truly so. Precisely for the same reason why I struggle to look into your eyes as you speak to me
Many fall in love with those most beautiful of us all
I have long fallen in love with trees
With pigeons that fly up to me to request a handful of seeds
I speak in riddles, dear
Many cherish the sounds of joy and the joyous
I cherish the sound of silence
And noise
Noise and silence
Each in its own way
As I sat by the entrance to the house wherein I was called to life
Passers-by glared at me as they would at a predator
How am I to enlighten he who does not listen?
Most people loathe minor and major annoyances, stumbling blocks and unwelcome phone calls
I just kind of hate big bad bear bullies
It is what it is
"-I always wondered why we had not developed into friends"
I frankly did not want us to
For there are no friends without ends
And such withdrawal rends
"But why, oh why?"
You really wonder why?
Because we live in a time
When we must watch the sky
When, next to seed-requesting pigeons, bullets fly
We have streets full of shells
We have blood in our wells
Though dead men tell no tales
The story's what the tombstone tells
.
[much later, though perhaps not as much as it could seem]
[he sees his chosen]
Wait
My dear
These are my arms
Is this your hearse?
...
May dreams of days gone
Not ever disperse
My first name is Deranged
My second name is Nameless
I feel both old and young
Too old to live
Too young to die
