entertain

Is that all there is?
If that’s all there is my friends,
Then let’s keep dancing.
Let’s break out the booze and have a ball
If that’s all there is."
-Peggy Lee

I am surrounded by light catching objects catching retinae
Telling neurons
Nothing
Someone died a minute ago
In fact, he
Was cut clean down the center with a butter knife,
So that the nerves could scream a while
His idea of truth could linger
But in those minutes he wondered
Died of blood loss.
And he was right to wonder
Should have guessed
He had all there is
And then it ended
A postmodern cop-out
Leaves us embracing
A truth with no conclusion
Where things appear to us and then do not and
How can I sympathize
With what is not here
With ideas and experience
Outside my consciousness
Objections are based on imagination and logic games and
All I know are bright colors
The trembling behind each eyebrow before sleep
The swelling of my own lungs