WHO IS ENTITLED TO PITY
THOSE FACES
IN THE ASSEMBLY TOGETHER THAT FORMERLY PRETTY
ARE NOW IN PAIN
PLEADING SPIRITEDLY WITHIN
THESE CRIPPLING PREMISES
HOUSING PLEATING SKIN, SPECIFICALLY THEIRS
SAGGING SACKS OF HONEY
RIPE FOR THE PICKING
GUSH OFF
CLIFF FACES OF THE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN SPECIES
WHOSE MOUTHS ARE MIMICRY’S MOCKERY
WILTING THEIR WILL
WHERE WORDS
ARE THERAPY
THEIR CREVICES, FLAKING LIKE FISH
EACH CRAVING
EVEN IF
AN OUNCE OF MERCY ARE TO BE WITNESSED TATTERED OFF
THEIR FRAMES
OF FLESH
ARE DYING
TICKING MINUTES
BY THE CELL
BUBBLING LIKE A POCKET OF LAVA MIGHT
DESPITE
THE ABSENCE OF DEATH
FOR ETERNITY COULD ONLY SUFFER
LIKE THIS
IN THE ABYSS
WHERE THE GRASS NEVER GREEN ISN’T GROWN
NEVERTHELESS, THEY WILL
UNLESS
OR UNTIL
UNLOOSENED FROM: THE PRESENT
HOWEVER DAMNED
TO FORGE FORTH
THEIR PATH
AND FOREVER LAST, UNANIMOUSLY
THEY MIGHT
FOREVER AND MORE, PRETTY AGAIN
THEIR FACES
RESTORED, THUS, THEY ALL REJOICE
RETIRE REJUVENATED, THEN, IN THE PAST, THEY DWELT
JUST AS
TIRELESSLY, TIMELESSLY, TRAILBLAZING TRAVELLERS
