INGEST THE POND

re-use the trim

tell the whole world

about your walk-in robe

ventilation to address compounded heat

fresh paint on the drywall

a quiet space to look over

a section of building

every single night

it will be different

you have the power of choice  

nightcrawler meat, bag salad

a box with no monetary value 

re-freeze the meat

Hello, look at my body

do you want to devour it 

I will scrub twice as hard 

to cover what happens tonight

In a decade 

I will be perfect

at going undetected

like blood in the stool

for thousands of years

take me for lukewarm dinner

someone call a doctor

verify the coffin

is a grade above pine 

heirloom mattress

you send curated samples of yourself

In a sanitised ziplock

and your creative process 

about as dangerous as a guided tour

smells like it was left in a cereal box 

soft light only, please

the light is faint

but we have grown accustomed 

to ravines, trenches

being on television

learning the value of a dollar

delineating between fat and acid 

ghoul and goblin

finding the lowest common denominator

our legs will become redundant 

and each night we fall asleep earlier 

Abscess takes the cart o’er yonder 

Mallory's trichrome stain

when the volume is down 

I hear strange sounds in the wind 

Just this once I will investigate 

then my legs become as osmium 

perhaps I have been here before 

unwinding the spool

redressing the wound

acknowledging under the blanket 

All is turning to chaff 

learn the pond

Death widens the hole

but Another death fills it

oh sleeper

run for your life

run until the water and blood 

separate 

let every shimmering thing 

stagnate