Ferdinand was unhappy about the move
Either
he was pretending not to notice
or
he
never saw it coming
He burned the bridges that might have gradiated vertices
f
eliminated matrices  
d
His sweet mouse nibbling turned sinister and hairless
 
Ocassionally I would spy him watching a
late nite
television movie
     
 First he would climb up to the rooftop
From there     his microscopic tears fell
f
with increasing velocity
  onto the heads
and
into the lives
of
the
 
unaware
 
     
passers
by
f
They misdiagnosed it as rain. and pretended not to notice. maybe
they didn't notice at all
As the pages went blank ferdinand remained idle
with bitterness and resentment he chewed on cotton-swabs