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A Poetry tDrop
by Wetdryvac
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Downweaver's Saturation
October 8, 1995
like angels what did fear to tread we waited
stretched out upon the subway line's broken glass
ignoring everything above contemplating how deep we'd gotten
the flickering coweing teargas convulsion in the lights
spastic beyond our faces crushed to the ground
time and time trains passing us by there on the glass
hiss rush of pulling currents
light tubes jangling against walls
we �ve seen four break now
then silence but for the hum of the rails
another hour gone
years -- and one turned to another "hangman's son waits no more for me"
he jumped down on the tracks, made a sound twice, like lightning
vanished into the dark of the rails, gone with the next train --
we said nothing, waiting in the patient glass, like demons dropped below
earth's crust shuddering in warm air beneath we frozen things
accepting the glass like everything else
bleeding into the ground only a little
not much to spare
hangman's son awaits our rise
silent in the tunnels, out there where the trains come from
humming to the sound of tracks riding upon their spikes
badder man, badder man, badder man -- I come for you
slick cut into the earth you can't find from above
like scabies burrowed in under the skin, you never see them
without ultraviolet light, then all these traces come clear
subway lines, like our hiding -- a parasitic ignorance
fear, eating at us in the hungry glass
knowing we needed a better place when the day fell
flickers in the lights so familiar you can count them
one, two, and the lights fail, reflections on the glass
keep crawling in the dark, eyes, a mass of insect lizards
screeching softly if we move, trying to be tunnel silent
defeated you see, the downweaver has taken us
spun us into a part of her coercion
her hangman has a rope that won't kill us
just leave us hanging there forever -- immortal
hungry, praying for a summer light that can't come
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