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​The Balloon


Imagine, if you will, a deflated balloon
It has no significance, just a dried up prune
But you decide to blow it up, expand its puny girth
And you blow and blow your breath, for all of your worth

At first, the balloon is just of an average size
But you continue onwards until right before your eyes
This sphere of air consumes half of the room
It pushes you off your chair and into the gloom

Yet you keep on blowing, you don't know how to stop
You're being forced into the corner, behind a dirty mop
Until eventually you're trapped beneath this monstrous ball
You push it and you push it but it does no good at all

Now if only you had a pin with which to prick it
That precious pin, you'd know just right where to stick it
You could watch in sheer relief as the air whooshed from the room
And this mutant globe once again became a dried up prune


 
Alessandra Liverani, 2003
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