Planet Kabob or I Should Have Been Studying

The sun beam stealthily inching along the carpet
the skylight shaped patch counting seconds
of careful crawling up my legs,
then blindingly wading through
the definition of a binary search sequence imprinted white on my lap
then sweeping past my mathematics induced consciousness
to alight on the next unsuspecting earthly inhabitant

Me, sitting willingly in a library
strapped on to the crisping surface
of a giant spit of a planet
patiently cooking in the heat of a distant fire.

May 8 09

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