Nothing

And then nothing became a bad word when the Aliens arrived

3000 years in the future when everything became space dust

I was a floating piece of space dust I looked up and there was a star

Burning out the whole universe and it became dark and we disappeared

I became a floating piece of space dust in the expanding universe

I was continually running into myself or other beautiful people

The expanding universe in a gaping grin swallowed me into itself

And then back out into the universe because everything is the universe

And God came and looked deep into my eyes with his flashlight goggles

He was a great big white sheeted ghost of a man

I had no sensory relationship to the universe, so he looked at me for one thousand years

As I floated towards things on the other side of the stars I could see

All along I knew the world was a river

Stepping out into the cold water like stepping into a field or floating in the air

I was moving forward into a place where there was no other side

I was passed out in my great big bed resting on brown pillows half drunk

I was trying to write a paper about things that happened in the 19th century

I was trying to imagine the feelings that other people have during the day

I was looking at a book and imagining a great big heated oven

I was walking along a beach like a crab with my back to the sand

I was buried halfway into a mountain watching the clouds hover

I was doing other things when I was supposed to be working

I was listening to cops pull over drunk college students on Clayton Street

I was imagining a hundred years of sleep in a furry animal body

I was a great big phony with an ugly body planning a suicide for someone else

I was downloading music illegally and forgetting to listen to it

All the things I thought I could do I realized I couldn't or that it didn't matter

I began to watch television on mute and turn my computer off

I began to sleep and then I woke up again and then I went to sleep and then I woke up again and then I went to sleep and then I woke up again and then I went to sleep and then I woke up again and then I went to sleep and then I woke up again and then I went to sleep and then I woke up again and then I went to sleep and then I woke up again and then I went to sleep

I told the world thank you for making me in the image of myself

The world responded gulp gulp gulp

Swallowing itself like some sort of fire