Spongebobia

last night

I saw Dick Van Dyke smiling in a crowd

he leaped high into the air

did a prat fall

and lay dead as everyone applauded

his last performance

I stood nearby

while Mary Tyler Moore and Mary Poppins

tried to get him to resurrect

this morning

I lay in bed watching the sky turn blue

through slats in the blinds

movement caught my eye

I got up and watched

a silver sliver of a distant plane

disappear in the arms of a tree

and wondered how many souls

can ride in a sardine can with wings

into a Nickelodeon Spongebobia afterlife

singing, Meep, Meep, Meep

rushing off to work

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