castled in his castle
happily imprisoned
within inflated color
striped astride the gentle slide
poised for that next merry slip
mattressed inside the designated
play palace camouflaged
on the outside as nondescript
joy warehoused inside
each possible edge,
calculated, softened every
texture sanded smooth
until there was nothing to
discover that wasn’t already
known and led,
sunless in this hangar
stranded on a planet
that no longer supported
life they tamed
color sun and surface
dim inside these nets
innocence caught
and kept innocent.
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