this verse was inspired by Kafka:

 

I’m so-and-so and I live right here. Am I

The person you want to find? If she only wanted to stage a comedy,

I’ll go away immediately. If all she wanted to ask was ‘Why all this pathos?’

I’ll answer as sublimely as they come:

I’ve never journeyed to the seven seas and voyaged

On them wherever they be, I don’t know where.

If little crystal puddles allowed me to stare at myself in

A Narcissistically apt manner, I’d edge my face closer to the trough…

A little piece of me grows old and drops off, leaving just a

Cockroach in a room. I want to yell ‘Andy, You Goonie!’

But everyone is oblivious to the remedy and simply moves on with their lives.

We could live in a town called hypocrisy, you and I,

Extolling the virtues of ‘seize the day’, only to fall asleep and die.

If we were all little cockroaches we could build an empire of wood,

And tell people that was where Caesar stood, on that fateful day,

You know the one – the one when it rained.