Sunday, Feb. 01, 2004/3:52 pm

forget

oh god

my seams are

unraveling

stitches snapping

cloth uncoiled

gaping

crumbling

ringlet masacre

hands are tied

with coarse string

can't pull the silk ribbons back

together

& decorate delicately with a bow

-

insides spilling

into a darkdeepdirty

puddle

by my feet

toes dipped in oil

a spirit escaping

holes punctured

as fabric splits

staples just won't do

burning thread

shrinks less and less

-

please now

when skin has been reduced

to just gritted dust

sprinkles of a shameful past

scattered

shattered

sweep it away

brush bristles moving death aside

sing a song as you hustle

leave the remains ungrieved

forget.