Late Surrealist
First, his fish wouldn’t start.
It coughed out tiny diamonds
the precise color of her eyes.
He ran for a public balloon
but it floated off as he reached
the only cracked pyramid nearby.
Walking along Pudding Street.
shoes covered in lovely butterscotch,
he couldn’t make time behave.
When two snakes hissed open
he tangoed—solo—to his desk
to find a lunch of lunar paperwork.
Until the moon swallowed its last cat,
he melted fossilized vegetables
and prayed for a plaid taxi home.