It's true,
*I think you've forgotten
how to skip rocks
so as not to have them*
sink
*into that murky, swampy
artificial lake that crosses
beneath the railroad tracks.*
down
*beneath the tracks there is
nothing but muck and a few
corpses weighted with stones.*
below
*the corpses at the bottom,
their faces twisted with
decomposition, there is*
earth's
*body for miles and miles, and only
a little patch of Hell deep down.
The rest of it is has seeped onto the*
surface.
*Just look at the city and talk to the people.
If this is not Hell, and these are not demons
then did we ever really have anything to fear*
after all?