Friday, July 7, 2023

etiquette

The bells are few, three in

the morning never much for

ceremony, more sharp jolts

into the inhabited dark and

insomniac rituals, the flesh

resists the blade only just so. 

I am the alarm that never stops, 

sloppy and improper down to 

task and hour, askew 

outside the lines, disheveled 

among these ill planned 

outcomes, a few scribbles across 

familiar symbols, the scratching 

at the ceiling, the staring 

as the shadows change shapes.

The body and the blood

low key high stakes static,

the water glass the corner of

a color, the passing of the light. 

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