The poem describes drifting through a negative space without discernible features like a face or solid form. The speaker attempts to hear with an insubstantial ear and rests on an immaterial bed. Actions like eating, drinking, playing ball, and running occur without real substance in this negative realm where outcomes are opposite - losing when winning and being glad when angry. The negative space is an unsettling place where the speaker is stuck maintaining an imprecise and contradictory existence.

1. I’m Drifting Through Negative Space Interpreted By Peter Cherico Written by Jack Prelutsky

2. I’m drifting through negative space,

5. place. nobody what says in this

6. Undressed in unknowable clothes,

7. I strike an impossible pose,

8. then rest my non-head on my shadowy bed,

9. and when I awaken, I doze.

10. I’m eating a make-believe bite,

11. today in the negative night.

12. The water I drink from my fictional sink

13. is dry as the light. darkness is

14. I toss an ball ephemeral

15. against an impalpable wall.

16. It bounces and lands

17. in my vanishing hands-

18. It’s hard to keep track of it all.

19. I’d like to be positive, but

20. I’m stuck in a negative rut

21. I laugh when I’m sad,

22. when I’m angry, I’m glad,

23. whatever I open, I shut.

24. I’m running an opposite race,

25. maintaining an imprecise pace.

26. I lose when I win,

27. going out coming in-

28. it’s eerie in negative space.