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Going Gooey

By Kameo Chambers

Today’s a new day!
The birds are barking, 
the windows frothing,
and there is yellow on the walls.

Today’s a new day!
There are peanut cherries,
apple-plum berries,
and turnips that taste like Skittles.

It’s a new day!
The sun is sublime
and my mental is going gooey.
I’m not entertaining those thoughts.

Those “Everything is going bad” thoughts.
The everyday “I’m so lonely and sad” thoughts.
I’ll get out of that looped fantasy land  
and create one of my own.

A home for me and me alone.
A world I call my own.
Where everything is upside down,
especially all frowns.

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