Childish churning chickadees-- chastened in the dark denim confines of the bulging pocket.
Chatting urgently only in touch, when their bodies grind together where two or more gather-- like prayers, like lips do like hands do--
Uncomfortable shape-shifting; feeling tense as legs shake loose the bunched up mess-- digging into skin like silver teeth or a silver bullet encroached within a werewolf's flesh--
Musically: creating new timbres accompanying suddenly aggravated gaits-- Ching ka-ching ka-ching ka-ching-- Fumbling in the darkness.
Ka-ching ka-ching clawing incessantly, as the forlorn children of burdensome currency.
Soon, their captors retire to worn couches to engage in aggressive loafing-- growing sluggish and torpid, legs slacken and jeans loosen--
their lips at the captor's hip bones spilling out their shiny contents like dripping saliva-- and down, down the children go, choking between the cracks of the worn cushions.
Bodies shift, aching for comfort, the farther, farther down they go-- their cries drowned drowned by pillows acquiescing to mushy bodies.
Those that survive the dreadful encounter-- clinging to their prisons-- feel once again the stifling hands of death reaching grasping groping in their huddled fretful presence
to be tossed loosely carelessly onto bedside dressers; for a fate unknown to themselves, nor the hands that toss them absentmindedly. It is rare that they are brought to the light of day again.
(It would have been better, to have sunk acquiescently, down into the bulbous stifling purgatory alongside their unlucky kin.)
There is worse; for those who are left in their denim prisons are thrown--cage and all-- into the jaws of Poseidon's mechanical canine, who sits on its hind legs patiently and consumes ravenously.
They amass at the bottom of its belly, until intense gurgling acids arise, reaching higher and higher til all are submerged.
They are tossed in voracious waters, twisting and churning and gasping and drowning-- holding onto each other like prayers;
feeling pulled ****** into the vacuum-- cries lost in the gaping pores of the gargling volatile beast-- lost, lost, lost, in the cries of forever longing.