There is a caparisoned elephant
at my dinner table, enjoying
goat's cheese and mango chutney after a third round of Scrabble.

It is good to make his acquaintance,
share jokes,
share a solidity of existence that I no longer have access to.
If we value our solid, unquestionable existence,
he and I,
let us abandon it all...

PUT THE PIECES BACK IN THE BOARD !
Fade away.
Make sense.

That's what he is, and that's what I am not.
That's what we must try and live with.

But first, can someone please light his cigar ?