Wait

did it start already

Click, too tight

no, tighter

someone said “relax” but their voice bent sideways

Track ahead

no, track was ahead

now it folds like paper I already read

I blink

miss a second

or maybe the second missed me instead

There was a ground

I swear

something solid, something gone

Don’t move

no, move

no, who said that

Up is-wait-no-down is

I had it-lost it-split it-two of it

Hey!-Hey!-Look again

It lines up-then it doesn’t

every answer stutters into something else

Falling-standing-same thing now

Hey-no-Stop-no-Yoo

what is real if it keeps switching sides?

We passed the end

didn’t we

I felt the drop without the fall attached

Someone laughed

or cracked

or broke into pieces that sounded like laughing

Hands up

no weight

they don’t come back the same shape

I try to name things

chair-air-me

none of it stays long enough to agree

say something stable

anything

Left is-gone-right is-everywhere

Hey!-Try again

Say it twice maybe one stays true

Still moving without direction

Blink-Blink-miss the beat

it fits better when it’s wrong

(which way?)

(don’t choose)

[hiha, too late)

Spin-break-repeat-skip

real-real-fake-real

Hold

hold what

If I land

prove it

show me the moment it becomes “floor”

If I stop

measure it

where does the motion store itself

I was sure

I think

there was a version of this that made sense

but it left early

Nothing lines up but it still continues

Hey-Hey-Don’t fix it

it breaks cleaner this way

Lost the track-kept the speed

Blink-Blink-off again

that’s the only part that repeats

we never stopped, did we