Other Places

Even though there are places like Baltimore and places like Cleveland and places like Chicago, which are far better and far away and have sidewalks, for one thing, I am going to stay. Those places, other places, ask for things I don't have, and things I'm in no position to give. I take and I take and I take. 

PONY ISLAND

Here I am telling you about pendulums when the PONIES are coming, or really I am going, but it isn't important, because they are PONIES, and if they let me down, boy oh boy are you gonna know about it.

I feel like I am already splashing around in summer streams, because the air is so mild, and it's all come at once like summer does. I know better. After the PONIES and the car-rides and the rust-belt domes, there'll be some ice-storm, or hail-storm, or worms worms worms, and I will crawl back inside again until the first of May. 

Oh, I hope the PONIES are magic. Maybe they really are.