Alone in this Room

I am alone in this room as the world
washes over me.
I sit and wait and wonder.
I have a terrible taste in my mouth
as I sit and wait in this room.
I can no longer see the walls., 
everything has changed into something else.  
I can not joke about this,
I can not explain this as
the world washes over me.
I don't care if you beleive me because
I have lost interest in that too.
I am in a place where I have never been
before.

I am alone in a different place that
does not include other faces,
other human beings.
It is happening to me now
in a space within a space as
I sit and wait alone in this room.


Charles Bukowski
(1920-1994)