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the balloon and sun

by ondrew

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I'm blowing up I belong to too much So I am untethered We're deeply in touch But seldom together I’ll love y'all anywhere, There for you forever I am but a bundle of balloons Unleashed in the lazy late afternoon With a trip and a call and some wind and some lift I will insist on drifting towards you Sometimes I worry that I’m overblown Blowing too far or with helium bloat It’s not that I am stretched too thin I feel so full it’s hard to contain all of it If I drift to a bad place Please pull me down and give chase Y'all are so grounding When you care to reach for my strings It's an omnidirectional march Without end and dense with starts I belong to just enough So i am abundant Helium's not heavy It's near light as nothing I am unburdened And make the world bubbly But sometimes I worry that I’m overblown Blowing too far or with helium bloat It’s not that I am stretched too thin I feel so full it’s hard to contain all of it If I drift to a bad place Please pull me down and give chase Y'all are so grounding When you care to reach for my strings It's terrifying to surrender to trust To let my every rubber color run Amok I'll rely on others on the blusteriest days I belong to everywhere And I'm unrestrained I'll never pop In the warm embrace Of our golden hours And glory days Soaking sun in in my rubber skins I'm in a giggly and gaseous state Slow and steady is what it takes to win So I hover high off helium intake Though sometimes I worry that I’m overblown Blowing too far or with helium bloat It’s not that I am stretched too thin I feel so full it’s hard to contain all of it When I do pop, stow me away My string and shell will never decay But my helium will rise forever To outer space I'll whiz by the sun's rays Whose diprotons burn While mine fly away I guess it's about taking turns On and off this earthly plane So stick around and yearn Sunshine and I are made of the same So please tell me why I shouldn't be free range I think I should be free range I'm blowing up
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heralding in a new year where i will intentionally float every which way

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released January 1, 2024

to those i love

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ondrew De Kalb, Illinois

lilting in and out of unconsciousness,
brainwaves reel and stutter in limbo;
place: my mattress; position: akimbo,
whisked away by sweeps, centripetal:
wisps of wind, deafeningly whimsical.

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