o perversity that has me look back at hell let Orpheus dance will there ever be another Eurydice? the future unwritten too soon too soon & not near enough will do
once no more once i danced lightly upon the earth when i had a bosom friend but death came for him & now i don't sing but cast judgement clip clopping like that reaper so entrenched & on trend i am so much older now that's it's been less than a decade i pick at my food tastelessly like a cursed tongue of my own making lighten up Mal! death will be soon enough but all adventures seem pale now i huff & puff slumped in my solitary gaol inside this concrete jungle even the rain falls loud how will a miracle come? some days i can see the light but to this a precipice edge without someone to share minutae to chew the fat & smoke the vine what is there? but so few people touch me deep i am numb & gloomy my place flooded in pea soup i'll head outside else i smash my mirror with a bleeding fist