TheBanyanTree: beautiful silver balloon

[Mike Pingleton]

the beautiful silver balloon spins
a chrome doorknob,
the mirrored center
of a rogue merry-go-round.
I hope it never comes down.
the balloon spins,
encircled by helicopters,
training videocameras,
enabling me on my sofa
to orbit the beautiful
silver balloon
in its lazy waltz
over the sunlit landscape,
so high
that monkeys look like ants
on the lovely ground below,
and somewhere a boy pulls a
sigourney, goes back into
the box for schroedinger’s cat
or was that a dream?
off-camera probabilities and
no access to emerald oz at any rate -
while the beautiful silver balloon
slowly spins as it floats
over the golden land
so high
that idiots look like elephants.