I swam in the orange And bathed in the blue, The warm colours melting Over the trees and promenades On a hot stinking day.
I walked down the street And a butterfly followed me Fluttering in circles around me; I kept on walking and it Followed me home.
I sat on the front porch And smashed walnuts, And the nuts spilled out Of the shells like brains.
The newspaper boy Rode past on his bike Throwing a newspaper And it smashed into the fence, And I kept on smashing walnuts.
The newspaper was getting Soaked wet by the sprinkler Alone on the grass and I watched it As it slowly curled and decayed.
I sat there reclining on The porch with the orange Sun and blue sky melting Over the hot day with the Butterfly fluttering over rose bushes, The sprinkler hissing and splashing The green grass and the soaked newspaper, And the nuts spilling out the Smashed walnuts Like brains.
I was completely Absorbed in that moment And nothing else mattered, And I wondered how many Moments like these I had missed Rushing through the days.
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With a digital drawing from Nikos Laios
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