Rupert Wondolowski

its beginning and its end cannot be found

Like two strangers chained to pipes

in an underground bathroom

or neuro-theology practiced by

a largely ceremonial department

with a tiny budget and few

employees

you may dance but

you may only dance 

without 

shoes

within a parameter

of a few square inches.

Dance 

like a little shack

built with floss 

and discarded

board games.  

Floss used by a

near toothless man who

lives on ballpark cigars

and fava beans.

The little shack dances.

Oh how the little shack dances

buffeted by wind in a field of 

corn and despairing scarecrows as

you dance only with your inner mind

where feet are many and frog-like

and you and an old Ravi Shankar

record can be alone.

I thought today was 

going to be the day

but it was another.

Rupert Wondolowski is the author of The Origin of Paranoia as a Heated Mole Suit (Publishing Genius Press), The Whispering of Ice Cubes (Shattered Wig Press) and a few others. His work has appeared in The i.e. Series Reader, City Sages, Lamination Colony, Spout, Murdaland, Lost & Found Times, Blades, Mud Luscious Stamp Stories, Rampike, Zeilensprung and other publications.  He is the editor of Shattered Wig Press. He is in the film, "60 Writers/60 Places.”