Brain Exercises 4.27.2009 Poem by Margaret Alice

I think my brain engaged in military exercises
last night, firing neurons, checking minefields
of barbed-wire thoughts, making connections
and launching guerilla attacks on innocent den-
drites with dopamine, brain cells ambushing
each other, creating new pathways of meanings –
no sane brain in normal operational mode could
create such nonsensical hallucinatory images –
unless I visited an alternative version of me in a
parallel universe – a very scary place indeed!