one shapeless sprawl grey silent
without end no omens of mis-
adventure
no warnings
to beware
as life
as humanly here begins:
a lit door opens without a sound
and you a pint-sized probing scout go forth impatient
to consume the air you have the dignity of rareness oh you have never felt so naked
it won't hurt whatever they take from you
(you don't even think to ask for mercy)
and will you miss the smell of the garden
and will you want the colors of home
poor alien? name!birthplace!family!
what roots that clutch
do not signify multiple
frailty?
now now now your cries clack between jaws
mechanically after-the-fact unseeingly
you act with all the wrong verbs poor sucker stuck to props that are longer
here
cues hissing warning of
mis-
step over and over (the throngs shouting less, less! instead of more, more)
and the glitter
comes spattering down...
rhyme it:
tell
well
bell and fell and so on so much
to be known
hell sell yell
and so forth
so much so much
oh memory me
more
yee!
purely purge thy dross