mental abscess
Pain is pain....
She reduces and expands,
diminishes and amplifies,
deserts and colonizes,
a specter always shifting.
Pain remembered is pain divorced.
Like the difference between a wave des-
cribed and drowning,
she twists a fog around memory's edges,
recounting a hazy version of the
particular present.
Tie me a noose despite (or perhaps
because of)
her, a symptom, a cause, a smokescreen,
a distraction.
Does the dark, early morning skull shatter
by the light of waking,
or does the shattering wake the skull
to dark, early morning?
diminishes and amplifies,
deserts and colonizes,
a specter always shifting.
Pain remembered is pain divorced.
Like the difference between a wave des-
cribed and drowning,
she twists a fog around memory's edges,
recounting a hazy version of the
particular present.
Tie me a noose despite (or perhaps
because of)
her, a symptom, a cause, a smokescreen,
a distraction.
Does the dark, early morning skull shatter
by the light of waking,
or does the shattering wake the skull
to dark, early morning?
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Pain is pain....
Pain is pain....
