Amathyzt wrote:
Revised work
surgically altered.
>Gardenia pressed dollops
pulled from under the bandages
>are flung from her fingertips
attempting to escape contractures
>and precisely
splinted limbs
>collide in her midst
at points of intubation,
>flamenco measured
electro-stimulations along dead nerves,
>her late autumn hair
a hair piece
>twisted in soil
and uprooted from the scalp.
>Outside Cubicle
curtained off.
>Little men and women with repetitions of lessons in subterfuge and
practicing intensely therapeutic
>destruction
between their subcutaneous injections.
>Little wars for little figures
tightening the laces on their corsets
>plays on every corner
pulling their lives into shape.
>couriers pushing plastic news
as to any form of reconstruction.
>debutants sparkle under
stethescopes, tongue depressed
>a fish bowl ping-pong game of chance
as surgeons take turns operating,
>the over rated stuffed animals dangle on the wire
having been removed, victims of the biopsy,
>mad elephants and lion tamers the circus has come to town
everyone behaving strange, staring and whispering,
>reading faces with criminal masks and hiding the truth I observe
as to there being a designer pill for every occassion.
>they need to believe in anonymity
their statistics contained in numbered files
>individual smelling sins combine to a stench
of disinfectant, mixing it up with room freshener
>they wear motives as medals and preversions are the latest fashion
covering up various new failures of the flesh.
R.M.
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