to form a barrier form a barrier
infect fissile shade lie down
don’t break the line
avoid dehydration stretch
allow the journey to ossify
that’s no cheap metaphor
allow experience to turn time to bone
horny layer
that dreamer’s dozen of dead cells
vicious organelles to form a barrier
form a barrier but hold it true
i was there beside you, warm but it wasn’t enough, something warm pulling apart my skin there, they fell like paint peeling off store-bought canvas they fell we fell and now they stand, broken—bottled—in opposition to something fallen and warm for themselves, only, for what else is there but life? a hat, cracking concrete, drinking the fountain of these fonts, so righteous, standing back to back like crimefighters guns drawn, guns drawn, guns drawn against the sunrise.
You can’t excerpt it nor find it in a Google search, now scratch your arm.
