i’m drifting through negative space
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I’m Drifting Through Negative Space
Interpreted ByPeter Cherico
Written by Jack Prelutsky
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I’m drifting through
negative space,
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a frown on my lack of a face,
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attempting to hear
with a tenuous ear
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place.
nobody
what
says
in
this
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Undressed in
unknowable clothes,
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I strike an impossible pose,
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then rest my non-head
on my shadowy bed,
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and when I awaken, I doze.
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I’m eating a make-believe bite,
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today in the negative night.
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The water I drink
from my
fictional sink
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is dry as the darkness is
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I toss an
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against an impalpable wall.
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It bounces and lands
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in my vanishing hands-
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It’s hard to keep track of it all.
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I’d like to be positive, but
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I’m stuck in a negative rut
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I laugh when I’m sad,
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when I’m angry, I’m glad,
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whatever I open, I shut.
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I’m running an opposite race,
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maintaining an imprecise pace.
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I lose when I win,
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going out coming in-
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it’s eerie in negative space.
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