Bricks and Paper on the Wall

let's not please get our finger caught
in the bricks up on the wall,
break fingers between the cracks on
up on the wall,
the crack between the bricks on
all the walls

people are the best ones those
that slide their fingers here, there,
up down,
through all the mismatched cracks
between the bricks on all the walls,
can't keep up!
running fingers along plaster between
all of the bricks, running eyes along
spaces hoping breaking my finger
will feel as good as it sounds,
the gritty unraveling of sandy stone,
and my finger sliding perfectly
up and down mismatched lines of plaster
fill,

impossible but then -
keep waking up cross eyed
staring at the checks on the paper on the wall,
the perfect perpendicular lines up on the
paper on the wall
jump out, unlike bricks, but patterned perfectly -
no difference, unbalance, jumping out from the wall,
those lines are the best! otherwise
there is no illusion to shake free from.