Vertigo

This feels like one more manifestation of seeing the world at a slant.  It does not help that my daughter and I saw Birdman at the Glen Art Theater last night, in Theater #1 which is down a long uneven-floored hallway.  The movie got wonderful reviews, but it played with both our heads and minds, albeit in different ways.  I awakened this morning with vertigo.  I find this more funny than frightening.  

The day started later

Yet

The world still spins

When I turn my head.

I figure this is a new way

To know things.

Today I find it funny

As long as I sit still,

Face forward,

I can see the humor

Lurking

In the corners.

I listen to the organ upstairs

Playing Advent hymns.

I smile.

I hear the children

Playing down the hall.

I smile.

I see the bent tree

Outside the office window.

I smile.

I will see two clients today. 

I will face forward

So the world

Plays the straight person

And I can see things

Out the corners

Of my eye.