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A Poetry tDrop
by Wetdryvac
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Serial
February 4, 2006
the man behind the glass tells me he masturbates to avoid killing
face distorted behind aquarium thickness, greening, a sense of slipping
when he moves, how the speed of light in glass slows down
just enough that on the other side, he ��s where my eyes aren ��t yet pointing
tells me in one of those limber slides that he ��d like to be outside
but sometimes he forgets �� and then he regrets, and his hand mirrors mine
intelligent eyes falling into the pattern my head makes, taking notes
yellow stenographer ��s pad filling up, spider-skit across more regular line
disconnect behind disconnect, and he asks would I like the story
of when he was a boy like me �� he thinks I ��m a boy �� he had
some soft furred thing, the first he ��d touched, and the feeling it brought
to get inside the killer ��s mind you can breathe like them �� and eat of their disease
or you can become what they hunt, twelve hundred meter deep sea pressure building up
wondering if the so-heated glass will keep their temper �� and eat of their disease
it ��s as though in study you might slip up, lift that mad cup and tip back
drain it in a gasp, and suddenly I want my knife in my hand
because if you study long enough you see the hunger in everyone
social restraints backing them up, maybe keeping, maybe not
and that thin edge of steel might be the blanket, fine edged and soft
which held me as a child �� all wrapped up tight and clear of all but seal
day-walk becoming curtained, becoming certain you see the eye ��s edges
crafty in their draught �� each person like the ones so apologetic here
hinting this, and wanting out �� I leave my knife at home
today I paint a profiled target upon my heart �� and hope I measure up
learn some terribly important thing, the next target, the next method
and tonight a beast will in his breast hold my image, carve up his wrists
and cry the name I ��ve given him
tomorrow, at slightly less than the speed of light, I will watch that video
look deep within for intuition and question again
we both know it ��s me he ��s killing
but maybe I ��ll learn enough
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