The Sky Fell Down in Clumps

At first we thought it was tissue paper,
and the world wept. The earth was peppered
with strips of cerulean voile. Bulldozers gathered
them into geometric shapes on the horizon.
A great scientist appeared on TV. and told the world
he never really believed in the whole rational thing
to begin with. So, that’s it, you thought,
everything is just a gimmick. As the overhead emptied
out, the rules became lax. We enjoyed a drip of morphine
underneath an overpass. I thought it was important
to remember there wasn’t any pain. I tried to explain
it to you. How things were better than before. Next to us,
the clouds gathered, kneeling in the dirt. Go on, get out of it,
you shouted in your sleep-state. I curled next to the cumulus.
It’s important to remember they always felt like us.