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With internal warmth, I sink back through glacial

spaces, melting the framework of imaginary boxes,

whose locks cannot contain me - until all the world

unfurls on a seamless plain, dissolved in mist.

Blissful people all around continue

to spin the little motions of clockwork lives -

striving to do the undoable, static in time,

miming with mouthed words on a magician's stage.

Paged by the bellboy, lazy ideas appear

in near thought-bubbles, taking the mass

of my passive body on a sky ride, amounting

to a guided tour of the four corners of heaven.

     While others may be anchored in despair,

     I'll float on funny cushions in the air.