the things I did today


I sat in a chair made of puddles
drank a mirror, set fire to my shadow

I carried a cloud across the street
held an earthquake in the palm of my hand

I lost a leg in the supermarket

I counted twenty-two holes in the sky

I saw a dog driving a delivery van
and a horse hitchhiking in hotpants

I met a girl with cellophane hair

I drove my car through a spongecake

I watched television with a penguin
took a vacuum cleaner out to dinner

I pretended to be a telephone
until the ringing gave me a headache

I caught a bus to the beach
the sun sat opposite - poked its fingers in my eye

I found a shooting star stuck to the bottom of my shoe





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