AN AGORAPHOBIC WALKS OUT OF AN ARENA...

There is a space within

that terrifies him.

It is a potentiality– 

as large as the Astrodome– 

too enormous to bear.

So he makes the world 

outside his door

his enemy 

and locks himself inside

his ramshackle home

and becomes a shut in

thinking, behind 

his windows and walls  

that he is safe

from all and any potential 

danger, by being a recluse.

Little does he know 

his fear of going out

is really the fear 

of going in.

So the joke’s on him:

his own company

is his confinement,

it the bones on the joke.

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