Illusory

A cabinet of mugs all painted
with the logos of brands
and cartoon characters
spawned before the decade.

Coffee like oil for biological
machines that chug it down
in swigs that make their teeth
a darker color matching
splintered boards.

Staying awake is the only
concern. While dreams
break through reality
in the form of radical illusions.

Like giant centipedes bursting
through worm holes blocking paths.
Maybe today is the day
something different will finally happen.