city of a solitary dweller

long time    
the alleys bustled    
long time    
the madman hustled    
     
desert was    
always a desert    
till it gained a city    
of a solitary dweller    
     
the mad man lay    
looking skywards    
till sand blanketed him    
and then    
the sand itself was blanketed    
by the ocean    
as it moved in    
     
the desert    
remained a desert    
only worse    
this time      
of water      
and sand    
     
and when he opened his eyes    
the lids      
separated the sand    
could still see the blue    
from under      
the ocean    
which itself  
was under    
a golden hue    
     
he rose    
from the sand    
shedding clay and bones    
zooming upwards    
through the    
dancing Oar-fish    
to the surface    
only    
to look back    
under water    
the city still there    
this time    
a pile of bones  
a solitary skull    
housed  
in a rib cage    
     
     
     
     
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