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[lolavitriola]

thing i wanted to try. apologies to e. e. cummings, et al.



board hanging down like a sleeping limb
fallen from the bed

dense forest spotlights

dot

our

path

not really here, we are faithless
hovering on borders
entering like killers through the parted lips of a dying scream
tip-toeing through the guilty quiet

up
            the
              stairs

smashed window holding strawbeds
      curtain drawn on a spotlight
            for our performance
                  (click)

a sink trailing copper entrails
an alter atop caving boards

a doorway
disabused of its chastity

windows     backed     up     to     the     wall     in     surrender

(click)
and the light is fading
whispering things only our cameras can hear
searching and coming up empty
we saw what we came to see

electrical panel marring the wall
open though it could close its eyes and hide in the familiar safety of woodgrain
too late now for sparks or tears

bodies lie where they were left
sprawled in anachronistic poses

until the dumptruck comes to collect them

we exit with empty pockets in single file
we didn't come for last respects
we came to see ourselves from the outside