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Drip. Drip.
Dripping,
Vanity.
Steel drain serenade.
Rusted mirror seeps
inching to cracked
rose depression tile.
Reverberating,
mildew starfish
parasites clung to
peeled lime lead
porcelain caskets.
Settling.
Slip.
Slipping,
Sanity.
Smith/ Wesson dream manifests,
from glazed slotted spoons,
burnt sugar and crimson plumes.
A euphoric
Vesuvius.
Death spores erupt
in operatic ballet,
a theatrical slaughter
of (s)innocence.
She spreads her wings,
a viridian eclipse
of frankincense
stained glass aura.
White linen, outlines,
still infant hands
pruned in pedaled pools,
of stagnant water.
Blood spatter streams
down cedar pews
and gold leave walls,
into worn grout lines.
A slow,
inching
flow.
In reverie she flies
on steeple high as
bells ring the melody
of their nerve gas elegy.
A crowning
percussive note
escapes the..
Pistol.
Grip.
Gripping,
Reality.
Adrenaline surge,
death contraceptive.
Kick starts flooded lungs
exploding to the surface
in a shower of acid rain.
Limp.
Pruned hands claw
for blackened tiles
and sugared pills.
Webbed eyes meet
(t)rusted mirror.
A frame of time
absent of truth.
Shattered in the coronation
of his pistol gripped empire.
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