i love referring to our
hanging ceiling octopus
dangling off our never used overhead light pull string
as our ‘tall people trap’
because our tall friends
never quite know how to stand up from sitting at that corner of the table
or walk to the other side
without slightly [or fully] knocking into it

and it’s not like it isn’t dangling down enough for kip or myself
to hit a paper tentacle or two
every now and then
but we can angle ourselves slightly
to avoid it easily
and tall folks just have more mass
that can hit and be hit

and the point is not that we are actually trapping/pranking/making fun of
our friends whose heads hit higher than 5 foot 6
it’s that i actually feel guilty about it
and forget it because i’m small
and live with it
that when folks hit their heads [ever so lightly, because it is made of folded paper]
i have to make a joke at our own expense
so that our friends feel less
attacked

[i hope that’s how it reads
anyway]