I can feel the very bones
holding me together,
the skeletal gel,
congealed soul-juice.
Or
The cantankerous, sickly curvature
Of a face with
eyes that see too much,
like a shibboleth
of the 21st Century
Dream
The yellowing, white sheets are
made up
wounds and burns, decomposing, disregarded
in rising smoke.
Its plumes of retreat
and remand.