inspiration comes slowly
eyes heavy, wide and lacking sleep
wednesday morning is like a hiccup
stuck in your throat and thrown in a blender
served as a smoothie
half-melted in the food court at Fayette Mall
puffs of water vapor
unwashed by a tardy sun
my head is an installation,
floating between shoulders
disconnected from overuse
a twitching in my leg,
my center of balance disturbed
and faces faintly lit
all my ear juice careens sideways
splattered on the road
for everyone to see
Chungyen Chang is a high school senior from Lexington, KY. He is a recent attendee of the Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts, in the Creative Writing discipline. He plans on writing for as long as he possibly can. His blog, "An Unsuspecting Notebook", may be found at http://anunsuspectingnotebook.blogspot.com/.