cartoon

Like a cartoon character
who sprints off the cliff
runs a few yards before realizing
suddenly
that there is nothing holding him up.
I am caught in this gruesom limbo
lost in that second of realization.
I am unsupported
I am going to fall.
and there is nothing i can do,
nothing to stop me, break my fall.
just a cartoon character
invented, imaginary.
created for the sole purpose
of being laughed at
and then destroyed.
The anvil falls,
the dynamite explodes.
The coyote is smoking
and the roadrunner is long gone.
still i hang
caught in my moment of hilarious despair
waiting for the drop.