qUANTUM OWL

QUANTUM OWL

Skinner’s rats
run rhapsodically
round a maze
amazingly like
a nightmare
in a quantum owl’s brain!
Full of bad wallpaper
disconcerting smells
things glimpsed
from the corner of your eye
slit by a Bunelian razor
in the hairless moonshine
shining phantasmorgorically
on the quantum owl
with quasonic isotopes illuminating
his owlish mind
as he props up the bar
at the Dog and Duck
talkin’ turkey
to a dyspeptic kangaroo
& behaviourism too!
as the bell rings last orders
the maze turns inside out
flowers blooming
in the magnitude
of it’s bleeding & infinite depths
the rats escaping into the sun
only to run round and round
in the same way
they have always done!
no surprise to the quantum owl
who smiles
& puts down his trowel
& drags his incomprehensible self
to the bus station
where he waits
for a 15b
to take him home
to sleep
perchance to dream
of skinner’s rats
running rhapsodically
in …… zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.