I took a long flight far away
from reality.
It wasn’t me who set me going.
It’s why when I was walking around campus
pretty sure I was soon to die
and tripping on all those backpacks bobbing
and eavesdropping on the usual quotidian complaints
I would say to myself,
“I’m back in school. Right now I’m walking to class.”
My gait was very slow and I no longer
thought I was the shit.
I ran into a few bright and beautiful ghosts
who were just a tad unhinged.
Matthew Freeman's seventh full-length collection of poems, I Think I'd Rather Roar, is soon to be released by Cerasus Poetry. He holds an MFA from the University of Missouri-Saint Louis and can be found on Twitter @FreemanPoet