the fan was busy rotating
giving me comfort off the humid
I stared at the paper illuminated
by an incandescent lamp
scrutinizing the lines in between
speckles tainting the virginal white
beside it is its pal pen
lolling in deep somnolence
the idoneity of that moment
was marking my stand and
incising my wit as I tried to gather
words to depict a scene and a metaphor
which have already painted in my skull
but the paper just stared back
and the pen continued to snore