Retreat. The world's at large. 
Run for your lives. You've got no 
chance against reality. Barge 
into a more perfect world. Go! 
The escape, but 7 by 4 by 1, 
is the world of the pen. 
Really its many; choose one 
to your likeing. Enter then. 
Discover phantasms bound 
by wizards of words. 
Lose yourself. Confound 
followers, among walls of paper. 
Return from the world of the book 
only to stay alive. 
Then, dive in again without a look 
at the outside, insane hive. 

January 10, 1985