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Sideway Sideways Poem
Sideways Looks from Upside-down People

Crooked looks
From upside-down people
In sideways, slanted halls Clinging desperately
To upside-down perspectives
It’s a wonder they don’t fall

Fighting backwards battles
Built with quicksand and with straw
Filled to overflowing
With jumbled-up opinions
Refusing to see flaw

Teetering on tipping scales
Unsteady and unsure
Tripping towards an ending
Faded and obscure

Wavering and wobbling
Feet walking on the sky
Head-standing on worn concrete roads
Step on clouds passing by

Directions blurring, shifting, churning
Can’t tell up from down
Right from left and east from west
Only sane one in this town

Dizzy in their reeling minds
Spotlights in the floor
Footprints on the ceiling tiles
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