Chat Room

pics and pans and deadbeat dreams
sitting along typing silent screams
no direction that I can see
among angels and cowboys is where I'll be

in a room of nonsense prayer
at my screen I sit and stare
among those who speak without their tongues
no black or white, no old or young

just players in a common game
where no one even knows our name
through avatars by which we're known
we never have to leave our home