About a boy who dreams of being a Superman and reading World Atlas all day long on his sickbed.
"17 POEMS, THE NUMBER OF MY AGE."
POEM 1
Outer Space
The most distant galaxies perceivable
from Earth lie 13 billion light-years away
Milky Way got its name
from its misty appearance
200 billion distant stars in it
Orion Arm where Sun
Orange and black
Frightening and needed
And our associated planets sit
Earth third from the Sun
The number of man completion
The lesser completion
To the number seven
We are Superman
POEM 9
Biomes
Life oh life
Amazon rain forest
Amazing rain forest
The moose, boreal forest, Caribbean, Sahara
Tropical Andes, flower meadows, Siberia
Panda China’s South-west Mountains
The Great Barrier Reef, Madagascar, Borneo
Bound together in an intricate web
are the systems, organs, and functions
within me
Go away, go away, cancer from our
gene, our double rotating DNA
