FULL MOON ON TOP OF A CHAMPAGNE PALM'S TIP

he listened so well
when they told him that he has to open the window of the house
and all the doors and fences
he did as instructed

he was told that it was the only way to free himself from the house
so he could play all day in the yard and in the park and in the streets
when all the entrances were opened
the robbers came and took away everything in the house
including him and all about him and then he was soon found
dead in one of the streets where all those who counseled him always pass
no one minded him anymore
he had become like everybody else: opened and uninteresting
when they were finished with the house and scrutinized what is in there
they wrote about it for a while like a very fun-filled summer
like the first open house of an advertising sale
and then this what they did:
they all leave and do not mind what happens next
and you have become just another number of their novel....