Kamikaze

child watches Kamikaze
too short to ride.

what would it be like
to be so high?
to move so fast?

someday i will be tall enough.
will i be tall enough someday?

tall enough child
watches shorter child on the ground.

Kamikaze clanks
rotates
stops, starts
loading, unloading ticket holders.

between flips
remembering shortness.
flipping doesn't feel quite like flipping looks
unfathomable, otherworldly
height looks
mammoth.

from the inside
you still look out of
the same eyes.
and it somehow
persists
in looking
fathomable
uncannily
like real life.

Kamikaze flips
spins circles
unfeeling
unaware
reliably, dutifully
continuing.