Kansas is no more

I.

I am falling rapidly where Kansas is no more,
as dear Alice said

Where birds are singing thru their eyes

People live on flying roofs

and fishes don’t need the traitorous sea
No one is talking to me
except the sky's cornfields

in that "Kansas no more"
death is not as we see it

but something more like loosing your baby teeth

Perhaps it  brings
one thing that life outside "Kansas no more" couldn’t

Justice

or at least forgetfulness

II

Water never apologizes

to "Kansas no more"

As it devours your thoughts

Your flesh

Your dreams

Your soul

the things you are just

Reflection of the past

Reality is double-faced

And you never know which side

you take a slide

It forgets who you were

as you become a tiny part of it

At the end you are just a fossil

An empty shell among others

a vacant decoration to deep-deep ground

where saltiness is no more

Maria Rodopoulou