poisine
You wear the milk-blood, you carry the bowl beneath your mouth, you rap
your rings against the bottom of the bowl and a poisoned sine wave seeps
out into our ears. They bring them in to take off their clothes. The
guests wear suits of deep velvet which absorbs sound, so as to be silent
during movement. Once they were bomber pilots, action at a distance, an
oil-smell to them like they were packed away in crates in some cellar
after the war and reassembled for the dinner. This would explain the
gaps in their consciousness, the short moments of glassy-eyed stillness
between sentences, a reduction of all unnecessary motion, so that when
they were no longer directly spoken to they would shut down, slump into
the chairs.
The light must be upon me at all times. Without the light I am prone to
attack by shadows. I am paying you to keep that light on me without even
a moment’s rest. Oh but i’d tongue-taste it, on the skin, on the very
walls where moisture sought escape, carriend inside and your breath has
left you your breath has left you you stink of the new death push at the
wall and the wall will give way, the thinnest of sheetrock crumbling
beneath the hands, behind which identical rooms hide, the contents
mirroring those of your room, wax bodies taking your places with the
eyes carved away.
Heaven Christ, open your skin to me.
(12:13.05.19.2005) [/ana] #