Daylight Zombie (Audio Post)

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This was written and recorded in a very jet-lagged state of mind.

Daylight Zombie
Ryan Goodnight
(C) 2008

Slightly south of sober and that’s just from the jet lag.
Halfway ‘round the world and I can’t see the sights; ‘stead eyelids sag.
I keep one eye half open for all the people that I might meet
but prefer to stare into a corner where things are going more my speed.
Today I feel like a lefty -- exorcising the devil,
and learning how to write proper. It’s hard ‘cause I’m disheveled.
Forget ambidexterity, as I can’t even get my dominant hand
to cooperate. My motor functions are not going as how I planned.
I fold my paper, holding the scissors backwards to cut what should be snowflakes
that turn out looking more like squares, confetti and half moon shapes.
It’s the night of the living dead, but I’m the only zombie instead,
Fear of all the humans that constantly surround me.
They all move fast. Run circles ‘round me,
I cover my eyes, yet they savor the outside being sunny.
I groan; I turn. I frown. I can barely see ee ee ee.
Leave me in the dim light to stare at the intersection of these two walls,
counting the subtle scratches from the painter’s brush strokes; look like they’d made by tiny claws.
So much for this beautiful day.
My one respite is that at some point I might actually get some sleep.
And perhaps I’ll wake up with my sight a little better than now, and mine to keep.
My circadian rhythm previously moved along with the stream of the tides,
ebbing and flowing in perfect cycle to the massive monorail that the moon rides.
Now my flow feels like the fat kid from up the block, has jumped in the kiddie pool.
The water sprays from the shock of him jumping in and flailing like a fool.
Soon he remembers he can’t swim and struggles, hydrophobic,
It’s become the world’s smallest wave pool. Everything around, he’s soaked it.
Heaving waters knock the other toddlers over the plastic walls.
Leaving them in the browning grass besides the pool confused and crying, all.
So much for this beautiful day.