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The Girl on the Flying Trapeze

She loops
and wheels
high above
my clenched
counter intuition
my white lips
stretched into
a mirthless grin

She vaults
beyond her
gravity-- above
no safety net
no antidotes or
morality epigrammes
about feckless
plunges into
blind safety

split seconds
above my
quaking bowells
and I wonder
if anyone else
would wait
for her ultimate
denuement.

Author notes

To watch helplessly as someone gambles with their life
Written May 20th, 2005

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