i'm going out of my head
trapped in this tomb of bricks
my brain liquefies and pours from my ears
but i know how to make it stop
i systematically pull the house down with my bare hands
from the roof to the foundations

in a matter of several hours
i stand
with the sweat carving rivers
in the brick dust that robes me from head to toe
i take a match
and light fire to the ruins of my castle
i feel the heat burning the backs of my eyeballs
and i know what to do
slowly
i lower myself onto the flaming wreckage
and pull myself back again
it gets harder to rise
as my body is razed
smoke signals to the ether
smoke signals to the one-ness