by Aprilia Zank<\/p>\n
\n
\npreparing for the death on stage \u2013 III<\/b><\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
you touched her neck<\/p>\n
with white suede gloves<\/p>\n
kissed her<\/p>\n
bit her<\/p>\n
before you placed<\/p>\n
the crown on her head<\/p>\n
among all those bare trees<\/p>\n
foreboding voices<\/p>\n
and skulls<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
but the blood<\/p>\n
penetrated the tissue<\/p>\n
dripped from the crown spikes<\/p>\n
onto her hands<\/p>\n
onto her hands<\/p>\n
kissed for mercy<\/p>\n
by moaning children<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
and no water on earth<\/p>\n
not even<\/p>\n
the vogues of Acheron<\/p>\n
could wash off<\/p>\n
those stains<\/p>\n
burning their way<\/p>\n
through the frenzy<\/p>\n
that had slain sleep<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
reading the signs<\/b><\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I levitate above my bed<\/p>\n
with all those dogs clinging to my feet<\/p>\n
eyeless, toothless, headless<\/p>\n
the blue flowers on my white<\/p>\n
bed sheets burst red<\/p>\n
the fishermen around<\/p>\n
read the future in dingy scales<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I walk in these bare streets<\/p>\n
dragging words behind me<\/p>\n
heavy like carcasses<\/p>\n
crying: listen, listen,<\/p>\n
but I hear no echo<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
just a flattering of wings<\/p>\n
behind barred windows<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I climb the walls of my bunker<\/p>\n
pull at roots, filaments and fur<\/p>\n
choke with the smell of burning flesh<\/p>\n
cover my eyes with barbed wire<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
aghast at seeing the signs<\/p>\n
branded on the festering cortex<\/p>\n
of an army of mutants<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
passage<\/b><\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
on bare walls<\/p>\n
life’s pulse<\/p>\n
black and white diagrams<\/p>\n
transmute into<\/p>\n
bursts of colour<\/p>\n
kinematic torrents<\/p>\n
blood floods synapses<\/p>\n
Napoleon’s head<\/p>\n
on your shoulders<\/p>\n
grins become Judas<\/p>\n
in the dark<\/p>\n
men gape, rotate<\/p>\n
on merry-go-round<\/p>\n
wood horses<\/p>\n
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