An Animated Description of Mr. Maps - The Books

He saw Mars but he felt Neptune

He had hoped to feel a certain strong emotion

But this is all they had to say:

«I was the son of a man, and so

We came together and we shook hands.»

«We shook hands.»

He often wondered what a million people

Would look like scattered randomly

Across a moonless sky, and how unlikely

It would be that they would all just

Say the obvious thing:

«You may call me brother now.»

«Yes, brother, I know.»

He is forty two

Five-feet-eight-inches tall

Normally wears his curly hair long

He has a ruddy complexion, broad

Shoulders and is barrel-chested

Is unusually strong

He frequently wears a full beard

And sometimes glasses

He is a college graduate

A talented artist, and sculptor

Now, Maps is a soft-spoken loner

Who resents society and all organizations

Maps fancies himself a ladies' man

He is an avid chess player

Smokes cigarettes, and a pipe

He is a beer drinker and loves to eat

Maps is a man of widespread interests

Who might very well be living abroad

He felt lost be he felt pretty intensely good

And he woke up screaming having dreamed

Of a color he had never seen before:

«I went to bed and to sleep, it was so

Unexpected, it really was frightening

And I saw pretty much the same thing

Embedded in my pillow.»

He had no trouble recognizing patterns

In the most delicate arrays of tangled lines

But he had a strange fixation on partaking

In nefarious things:

«Stealing, lying, cheating, gambling

Fornication…»

He saw red, but he thought five

He was pleased to find his road trip

Was enhanced by number-color synesthesia:

«My trusty Rocinante bounds along the road

Very well, leaving the friendly aroma

Of donuts and chicken tenders

Hanging in the desert air.»

He willed away the miles while quixotically

Attempting to reclaim his inner child

He was embrangled and enmeshed in

Something far too loud to comprehend:

«I want all of the American people

To understand that it is understandable

That the American people cannot

Possibly understand.»