Cocoon of DreamsA caterpillar walking in a baboon And a butterfly dreaming in a cocoon One sees through the absurdity and thinks The other sticks to the grooves and blinks A glistening star beholden to every set of eyes Destined to dance across the skies A scientist once sang me a lullaby in butterfly Now I’m just a poet spelling mathematicsSoul Damage Here stands that fateful man of straw: painted white, in a black cage around average height, below average grades pot on the head, hair of a b...