back home i'm lagged and lazy

Denied Areas

Some zones you have to walk around.
We have no idea what goes on inside them,
we just give them a wide berth and look
around for the friendlier zones.Sometimes
you have to take running leaps to get to
them. We keep moving, not always in straight
lines but we keep moving. And we can chat
"How's the weather?" "I don't have a
mother." It can be stressful, though
sometimes we break into song without
warning, and then someome always starts
to remember another life, and then one by
one we all begin to weep and anything
seems possible like a glistening rainy
pavement, or a lodging house, or a toothpick.

--James Tate