Lena llama

Soft white nose in air haughty disdain neck smell somethin bad always sure foot long neck. Lena with scarf round lo cut dress. Llama.

Won’t let down neck for to do that soft thing it’d be easy for tears to see in eye for other might know she sad. Stay in. Bake. Safety in no number. Dug a hole for herself she did with disdain neck now don’t know how to change the doin it always. Way. Cake. 

Seem more quiet than usual neck down low nose on ground booby expose on bra. 

Twitch. Sad. Alonely. Go get some neck lowerin lovin time come back home to sharin smelly nose place. Fleas on pup tights on cat, tiara on dad. Do se do.

She not only one with head lowerin problem. 

Look around see them other how they’re just the same. Neck. Nose in air. Tear on eye level. 

Lena don’t always want to practice walkin on tightrope act not the right mood specially uphill. Dangereuse. She plop down on belly all four them spindle leg splay out refuse to budge. Make a nice dust mop. She hide under circus bed in cozy white room if she can get under that is. Kinda large. Her. Sometime round belly friend come over to coax her out from under them damn mood in bed,  nice critter fritter usually do work not to mention neutral topic and some stair to climb. No color bird . Neither. 

Hillary performin piano seal 

Quiet pianist with sash round waist who swing and sway she play so nice seem to enjoy, give too much credit to critical one who say somethin smell bad like dead fish on piano playin. Cake bakin bread bakin piano performin he don’t know, can’t balance bounce ball play Mozart read Strindberg Steinbeck fix five course dinner, don’t know where kitchen is, feed kitty help out wayfarin people back door teach piano playin student don’t forget drop stop turn fall jump in out under round break neck arm see you next week. Practice. 

Click. 

He don’t know nothin cept critical. She bought it. Sad. Voice joinin other voice on her head don’t help piano performin career specially when keep mumblin things like no good give up please. Don’t give a seal the warm and cozys right before  steppin on stage. Unnervin. Need all the prop up ammo one can muster for to tackle them concerto make them note magic sing sweet song stand on tippy toes. Big reach. Chopin. Sweet. 

Reachable. 

Nothin sweet bout critic from on sofa all day. High. 

Hillary seal move away from negative sofa dweller; friends in sea all oily. Breathe, eat walk move. Can’t. Ocean black and blue. Cover in gunk. Need help. Hillary left her practicin piano performin to help. 

Them pesky voice in her head try to follow, get in the way, plenty critical inside out, not only sofa sitter. Her. In her way. Forget. Do some think about someone else. Dive in. Gunk on brain. She get consume when helpin greasy bird, forget to listen to hear for voice. Guess they’re takin a long nap or dead. Maybe. Sweet music. 

Back home to her piano practicin performin, she start practicing piano playin on composer long since forgot, he need reviving like herself. Sweet music voice, her. 

Hillary seal aim to please dance on ball roll over clap fin go away come right back even if want don’t want she back anyhow. Find how to do what she do when all grow up won’t roll away come back unless need to. Do see go stay. Nice piano playin’ performer. 

~ Circus for to Act
~ Neila Mezynski is author of Glimpses from Scrambler Books, a pamphlet from Greying Ghost Press, echapbooks from Patasola Press and Radioactive Moat Press (Jan 2012) and chapbooks from Folded Word Press (Jan 2012), Mud Luscious Press and Deadly Chap Press.