The spread of the deck
Red upon black suited admirers
Have become my friends.
They fall like lovers in a game
Of patience.
Isolation is like a night visit to a supermarket:
Slow intervals between the beep of the till
Are the only signal the patient still lives.
Burnt plastic melting with squealing wheels,
Cold metal trays and hard-lined aisles
So draconian that a Hitler-Frau designed them.
Objects that weigh much more than they appear
Dig deep welts in my hands, like lovebites.
My tap drips incessantly too;
It is affected by the same lonely pause -
Silence
Then a flood of droplets.
Sometimes the tap turns unexpectedly
Almost as though a phantom inhabits my toilet.
I envy the droplets as they scurry down the drain
As though they roll down porcelain with purpose.
I toil: hiding up the tap, refusing to come out.
This is my hibernation and my habitation.
Sustenance leaks down into me,
Almost washing me away.
But not quite.
I long to be a droplet, or a solitaire card.
Every motion and I will fold, into nothing.
How dastardly a disguise that would be,
To be atomized into nothing...
Though still I am to learn the rules of patience -
My vanishing encore must wait yet one more day.
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Comments
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Wow
It sounds like someone waiting to die as the IV goes drip drip drip. As a whole, this piece is powerful and the words used in it are exquisite in their way and use. It was a bit hard to follow at some points at first but I got it though I am still not entirely sure about the morning of a phrase or word or two, I got the majority and enjoyed it. It caught me from start and held me to finish, good write that.
Thanks for the entry.
Truly and Darkly,
Dirk
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Great poem. I think you should enter this poem in many contests cuz u could win.
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