Monday, December 28, 2020

14 Haunted Lines

 

I disappear into a long block I touch dissention—a box with feelings a casket with faces at a haunted chamber. a clump of pebbles a group of silence so internal such a scale—to weigh souls to weigh morals to determine ethics. so much mortar while souls die the vacuum of the vaccine. so accustomed while it’s wild the fret of some alienation. I see cedarchests as filled with clowns such sorrow in laughter—to taste nothing or legs tingling while depleted of mercy. flesh inside out bodies rotten in death the river is moving its whisper. so close we can’t feel so far we feel too much such dear secrets! the block is empty aside for kittens as to hear such sounds. the ages are critical a bible is flapping such pages seeming sanitized. the buildings are distant the feeling is murky upon a sudden whistle—too enveloped such a cocoon or far across tracks there’s a couch—a person of some sort, as evaporating with every step. grass is filthy oil is dripping trashcans are flipped over. such windows such fiberglass a maddened man in me. by memories to clear vats by sacrifice to alter personality while many are ruined in those boxes. surefire contempt as assigning souls to reprobation—too much to chase too little to render niceties while the past is haunting us. a toilet on a roof a pot with flowers or buildings with a strong stench.      

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