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
f
erdinand remained idle
with bitterness and resentment he chewed on cotton-swabs
home
kitty
binocular stereopsis