Smoking Caterpillars

Seleste Morgan
Coffee House Writers
2 min readJul 15, 2019
Photo taken by Prawny, courtesy of Pixabay.

And the smoke rises…

Swirling in the sky,

worming and twirling

tendrils…

I feel as if I should reveal some great truth to you.

Standing fat as a beached whale,

rotten and full of shit

before you.

The caterpillar’s charms of

absolute objectivity

are no more outstanding

than the solid truth

that mushrooms grow and shrink,

(depending on what side you eat),

Our fucked up minds and hearts.

But still climbs…

The worming tendrils of crawling smoke…

Contemplating stolen universes

and discovered dreams.

Seeking and searching

for diamond rings in

Cracker Jack boxes

while we choke on our Lucky Charms.

Milk dripping from our faces

like the ravenous,

deadly,

cereal beasts we are.

But the diamond rings were

lumps of coal in our throats,

silencing our voices

in the hope

the coal will fall out our asses

and warm our homes.

Rising and worming…

Pondering the answers so clear.

Trying to figure out

why the rest of the world

is so fucking stupid…

staring into their phones…

They must have forgotten the sky

fitted with wonders of

pink unicorns and

fire breathing dragons

clouding up the bright blue

Floating sea…

Worming…

Twirling, tickling

sensitive noses and

burning our eyes.

Visions blurred to the images

reflected in the broken mirrors

of what we dare call truth…

And the caterpillars

sitting in smoke

lift up their heads

wondering…

WHO the fuck R U?

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