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…and falling skyward, the half remembered spiral, wet crunch of frozen blood underfoot, this, the arterial dreamway, spectator to your own execution, an elevator, a technicality, her hand twitching in sleep, li-lies and pubic hair, trackless steppe of memory, forget and repeat, repeat and forget, Trust, Doubt, Betrayal, Forgiveness, Faith…

…such that all future affections turn on themselves in cannibal frenzy- we feed on our insatiability, on the core of our hungry ghosts, while our hidden selves peer out(in) from the gap between hope and inaction, lidless eye inverted, quivering in self regard…

…because vulnerability is pain, premonition occurs in the now, fear for the future spurs hindbrain response, and thus we rehearse our tragedies in full costume, powdered and bright under the gaze of whatever disembodied heart beats the space between us…