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Pome Clinging to the Wall

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Pome Clinging to the Bedroom Wall

The text
ure of your
skin was no
thing like I
thought
some
thing less than
scars, some
thing more than
words

the frag
ile frag
ment
ed dance
(the broke
en steps)
of an in
jured ball
erina

The text
ure of
her freck
les an in
coherent
babble of
braille

an inter
stellar map
of an un
known galaxy
of an un
imagine
d plan
et or the
infinit
isimal re
mains of an an
cestor slip
ped be
neath her
skin

his so
liloquy trans
lated in
to a tele
graph
ic trans
script of a
ghost
ly moan
ing, writ
ten in her
skin
artificial
breaks, text
w/in a created
space, the
deconstruction
of meaning, the
recreation of
ambiguity in
the crude
technique of
a child surgeon
sticking doll
parts on in
congruent bodies
just because
he can, because
he is tired of
his other toys
and wants something
new, even if he
has to make it
himself.

..

unleashing
the obvious
by breaking
open the
apparent, breaking
down the
plainly constructed
and creating
the incoherent
by regrouping
these trusted
couplets into
sterile
pairings
becoming the
fruitless mule
of an idle horse
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TheObviousChild's avatar
This is so good, I can forgive you for p-o-m-e.

I'd love for the comma to come out of the last stanza, so it could be a 'ghostly moaning writ' as well as a 'ghostly moaning written in her skin.' Aside from the brackets it's the only punctuation mark in there, I kind of tripped on it.

But I have big feet, so.