surely this is a near death experience

but i am not outside of my body

i am very inside of my body

i think i am in a coffin,

a tube, closed at the ends

with blinkers on.

me, i mean

i hear faraway sounds and i have to travel far

to see my friends

or so it seems

i speak through a tin rigged with twine

through a hollow door under water -

it's all garbled like skype sometimes is

can they hear me, i think now

no.

no, why would they? these pages are

foreign.

gray and isolated.