when the flowers are wilting

when the flowers are wilting

and the house is dilapidated

and creaky

and falling apart

and somebody is at the door at night

when you’re homealone!!!!

what are you supposed to do other than

run for your life

and scream except that isn’t sociallyacceptable

so you hold it in

like you’re holding your breath

except the fear is building up

and you’re going to explode

but not in the traditional sense of fire

and smoke but

in the humanstyle of erratic breathing

and blood rhythms

and trembling

and crying

but then that’s not socially acceptable

either

so really no matter

what you are going to embarrass yourself

and be sociallyunacceptable at one point

or another

and that one point may as well be now

because whatever you have to lose will be lost anyways

and time will do nothing

but attach you to the temporal

so it’s time to stop being SOCIALLYACCEPTABLE

and it’s time to start running around screaming

--homage to ee cummings