YOU'RE GROUNDED!!

Considering the sleepless nights I've been having these past few days, I thought it would only be appropriate to post something I wrote back in 1988.  This poem was published in And Other Travels, An Anthology of Poems, that same year.

YOU'RE GROUNDED!!

200 paper airplanes 

have landed on my 

     bedroom floor,

200 paper airplanes 

I made in an 

     attempt to soar

Beyond the confines

of the sleepless night

Alas!

Not one of them has carried me

towards the place where light

from dark is only seen

as negatives of photographs!

200 paper airplanes

like gentle ghosts

     so pale

could only

     call

to me with 

     rustling laughs

As

They spun around between the walls

they touched the ceiling and the door,

Then

200 paper airplanes

crash-landed on my

     bedroom floor...