Look all around,
in the crowded parks,
on the busy streets,
in the packed trains,
on the narrow balconies,
of cut and paste
tenement blocks.
Search far and wide
for the one looking up
at nothing,
doing nothing,
not one goddamn thing
but lying on the grass
or sitting on a park bench
or looking out a window
like an idle idiot
a lazy loafer
looking up at
NOTHING
that we
can see,
doing
NOTHING
that we
can see,
maybe staring
at the clouds
in the sky
or
the stars
in the heavens
or what the fuck?
There's nothing extraordinary
out of the ordinary
IT'S ALL
quite ordinary
whatever's up there
that we cannot see.
We are sure of it.
So why does he do it?
What good does it do?
What money does it make?
Do something, for Christ's sake!
Go someplace!
Look forward
or backward
or down
or at a screen
or into a mirror
or inside the medicine cabinet
if that's what you need.
Just DO something!
Move out with a purpose,
any purpose will do
like the rest of us.
But looking up?
And at
NOTHING
in particular?
NO.
THIS.
WILL.
NOT.
DO!
So come now
my friends!
Grab his attention
and drag him back
DOWN
to where he belongs
DOWN
with the rest of us
and do it now
FOR HIS OWN GOOD
before anyone else
wakes up.
