Andy Palasciano

Tentacle Twirl

There is a ride at Sea world called Tentacle Twirl.

It is a spinning ride, like Steve Martin in The Jerk. 

I wonder if riders say,

when they’re on the ride,

“Haven’t you ever seen a man so broken he had to spin?”  

And the tentacles of the ride are of jellyfish,

much like SpongeBob, 

who went off to live with the jellies, in one episode. 

When you twirl, it is like having your flags unfurled 

and your true face is exposed, 

like one time, when my brother was driving,

and I was in the passenger seat. 

We went around an on-ramp that went down 

making an almost 180° turn. 

He was going so fast around this on-ramp that I floated, twirling. I couldn’t hold onto anything. 

I couldn’t fall into my brother. I was just almost in another dimension. It felt like pulling six G’s. 

You seem go to another world, 

when you twirl.

Hurl

When the world stops spinning and begins to twirl, 

you know you’re in love if, 

like in Wayne’s World, 

when Wayne tells Garth if he looks at the woman for him, 

he will know she is the one 

if he doesn’t hurl.

The Baton Twirler

There was a tree that was in our backyard

called The Baton Twirler.  

It’s flowers were pink in the late spring. 

The seeds of the tree floated down to the ground. 

I looked at the tree with my eyes, 

and then beyond,

in the sky. 

To my surprise; 

Eagle Men are rare to find, 

they only sweep the evening skies.