Y’know that cat is in your mind
one black galaxy swirling across your retina
rods popping and cones popping
as photons quiver
and nerve impulses like secret cats screeching in the darkness
to be split and compared and combined again and split again
in numbers unknowable by any sense except nonsense
and all the time this chemical or that chemical is excreted by some nameless neurone
only to be absorbed moments later by some other of the billion nameless neurones
and yet its momentary presence shaped the flow
cats chasing their own tails
cats chasing each other
cats fading into weariness and then nothing
domino cats
firework cats
a gigantic imprecise but yet resonant to some external reality impression of a CAT
drawn in electric pin pricks in your mind.
To say one thing and to mean another
I held my hands and they felt fantasticI tasted my tongue..
My hand loses it's grip, and the string falls onto the concrete pavementI remember a colourful mosaic floor of a restaurant in Sardinia...
I wasted my day again hanging around the market placeleaning on the wall pretending to feel bored...
Those mountains came closertoday whilst your pale face browns,and ideas ( concrete or abstract )curl towards you nonchalantlylike a metaphor.