Crowds

There are crowds here
and crowds there.
You want to run,
run from the crowds.

People come up to you
and ask who you are,
but all you want to do
is to run away from them.

The crowd is getting
bigger and bigger,
and you are getting
smaller and smaller.

You are becoming clautrophobic.
You begin to hyperventilate.
You just need to get out,
out of the crowd.

You leave the crowd.
You begin to feel better
but decided to go home
and away from the crowd.

December 1997

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