black storms rage in his eyes

fierce, frightening dust devils

making silent apocalyptic statements  

while searching for identity

recording the sound of color 

black, white, red, green, blue

experiencing a drift of thought

as if floating in a dream

menaced suddenly by vowels

distorted, disconnected in delirium

he perceives a frequency in the air 

like disturbed hidden speech

or a dream that cannot find 

its alternative

and whose function it is

to study drug wasted features

of a skeletal torso 

or to recall the unrelieved

immobility of time and place