The Gypsy

Unexplained Carousel

A strange and foreign place lost in a reverie and you walk nowhere or
anywhere and think nothing. You’re prepared to see any sort of
wonder or gape like an imbecile at the most mundane thing because it’s
news to you. Wogs or supermen or ghosts or something live here. And the
stone is not just stone but hard stone and
your foot wears it away like Caesar and Michelangelo and Savonarola and
all the nobodies did. You look like you belong here but you don’t. You
walk and you look at everyone and everything and here you’re the child
who can’t even ask for what you want and don’t know what anything is for
and everyone is your friend and a stranger all at once and you are in
in their thrall.

Then there’s this carousel in the middle of
nowhere if this is nowhere how would I know with no one on it and it’s
just there with no hint of a reason for it there are no children. There
it is a world spinning empty. It doesn’t belong there and you don’t
belong there and you stand there accusing one another of nothing. It
serves only to remind you that your children are out of sight across an
ocean and you weep for yourself and you weep for a whole goddamn
continent that sent its children across an ocean never to return.