Published in First Literary Review - East
July 2020
Burn to Yawn/Burn the Yawn
(With only mild apologies to Jack Kerouac)
by Alison Ross
Do you desire everything at the same time? Do you never ever yawn? Do you burn burn burn,
like a fabulous roman candle? Do you explode like a spider in the cosmos of the commonplace?
Then you might be one of the mad ones—mad to live, mad to be saved!
Do you desire to yawn? Do you yawn to burn? Do you burn to explode?
Then you might be a spider in the cosmos of the commonplace!
Do you yawn like a candle? Do you burn like a spider?
Then you might desire everything in the cosmos of the commonplace!
Come one, come all—to the cosmos of the commonplace, where the mad to live and the mad to
be saved converge to explode the yellow yawns and burn the spiders with fabulous candles, and
with fabulous stars!
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