Sitting on my toadstool I look out over an evergreen dream beyond the edge of reality as the sea nymph beckons to me calling me by name. Into the water I jump head first without a care never once remembering that I never learned to swim and as I go under I regret I never learned the rules of the game. Time after Time over again each time I jump headlong into the fray I sink below the quagmire And as I grow older I never learn that things are still the same. Below the level of my head I sink....
As published in The Zero Card, January, 2000. Originally dates back to 1986.
