intensified surprises,

banal conversations,

stories once unrefined,
memorized chuckles,
stale apple juice,  

slang words recited
with a bitten lip,
to a dent in a wall

meanwhile, as a tumult

of external electronic clamors

pound throughout bone,
deep inside a fragile skull

with walls soaked in ink,
i crawl in through eye-sockets

and plunge my container
into my head juice,

heaving up my eyelids

against the heavy sap

to observe thoughts that swirl,
sheltered and still

suddenly,

a flick thrown to my skull,
so I whip my face around
to find a glaring familiar visage
observing me quietly

he flicks my head again,
and we both leap
into smile