disillusion
i. once all the rare fruit had gone rotten on the trees & fallen to the ground
normalcy was the seed in my back pocket offering the only way to stave off the hunger, if only in some distant future
ii. as i dug through the dirt to place the seed, i looked around at those people who planted theirs long ago
and never bothered with the rare fruit which was too high to reach anyway
and i cursed the clouds and asked, why didn't i just plant mine a long time ago?
iii. now i've arrived in the distant future and obtained, if nothing else,
the answer to that question















