5 & 50

draw a picture of

thoughts

emotions

changes

life

prolly the first time,

just remember, you can never really erase

make sure there is a

strip of blue up top

–tempura blue–

and a greening, yellow sun on top of that

(shades of Van No)

and maybe a temporally questionable moon opposite

(and a patch of stars if you’re lucky)

and leave a big white space

between blue & bottom

a bottom spiked w grass

(spikes that are to scale monocots the size of palms)

–since it’s in the white space

life is written

in big looping careful script

–sans emoji–

script that runs slanted, and gets

cramped when you

realize

life is shown

(not told)

and you’ve run out of

space-time realizing this

–and have yet so much to say–

unexpressed

undepicted

(stick figures looking for a bumper)

that the too big ladybug atop the spikes below, and now so dangerously near

will block out of you