FULL MOON ON TOP OF A CHAMPAGNE PALM'S TIP

there is always a need
for duplication, like a key
to a vault, or a room,
like another key to an
enclosure, but that is not
what i mean here,

there is a need for more keys,
even when there is no room
anymore,
you look around and you see keys,
dangling, carried away, some even
are falling from their pockets,
and you wonder why of all the
species, you have none,
and then the heart begins to quiver,
" i need a key" and not stopping,
" i need more keys" which becomes
altogether another kind of nonsense,
some strangers look at you asking what
is happening about those keys,
" i did not lose them", and you put the
final word, " i am closed and i do not
have even a shadow of a key"
the man cannot breath, but he
continues to live. And they wonder why.