THE WEAVE:
Mercury writes back
to Neptune…
"People like to do things
the right Way. I do
most things, the wrong
Way. I jump
with no net, even
though I mean to bring it.
I mend the parachute
while I'm opening it. I leave,
and I don't know wHere
I'm going. "Well you sound calm,"
people tell me, when I tell them,
I've done it again. I end up
somewHere different from
wHere I was. I alWays come out
a little changed,
as I synthesize experience.
I climb through
an obstacle course
no One can See.
They just See me
doing backflips, or falling
through the Air, grasping
at the trapeze, in a flea circus.
I am dear
to my friends, because of this.
And in the end, I end
up somewHere, and people say,
"Wow. You could have just walked
tHere." But Now I know
how to leap, and be
with the discomfort
of the wrongness of things.
And its OK, if All
they See is entertainment."