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Meltdown

Radioactive warehouse of

****** up memories

stacked one on top of

the other, higher and higher

Threatening to fall

Down, down, down

Crash!

Close your eyes

Now, open them

You never left this room

 

Eagle claws grasp

eggshell brains of

polyester and light

Don’t drop them!

Soaring, screeching, speaking

in tongued syllables of

animal lore, resounding

through the heavens

Close your eyes

Now, open them

You never left this room

 

Fire-ache radiating

Hot

Snapping brittle bones

with rapid fury of noisy chaos

Touch me!

Don’t touch me!

Whisper my name like

you hate the taste

Close your eyes

Now, open them

You never left this room

 

**** me sweet

with bullets on your lips

and my lips the targets

Gleaming red in the center

of a nameless bull’s eye

in some ******** country town

Noplace.

Close your eyes

Now, open them

You never left this room

 

Bury me and tell

no one, leave me

underground, suffocating slowly

I will become one with

the consuming earth

Fading to ashes and food

for hungry, blind worms

Seeking, seeking, seeking

Close your eyes

Now, open them

You never left this room

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Written by
kate-sims
American
Published
Jun 12, 2011
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