|
Ginger Dendy
What do you say when to say nothing is best and nothing can be said? When
the scaffold that serves as your foundation has crumbled and those who love
you love you toomuch and your lovers have no love to show. When everything
only leaves you wanting.
The thing you love best, know best, is the Black, and you want it bad. Or
do you? Yes, you say, but then, Ah, it's too early. The moon is too full
and the froth will come again with her sweet mother's blood and will foam
with you in the wetness that will evaporate all too soon and then will be
the time.
And you're spoiled and aging and though you say you like those stretch marks
across your middle, see in them an echo of tidal marks on the shore the
white on white fish-bone zebra pattern against the smooth pallor of the
skin appeals. But the sting of loss is all around. Strangling you. Caressing
you. Lovely. So lovely. You bear your pain as well as you inflict it. Maybe
better.
And you're lazy and to leave you'd have a long way to travel. To trace your
way back. You're many miles from that wetness or so it seems. And even if
you return, will she sing to you again like she sang so long ago? Will the
off-key perfection of her shrieks, if you find them once again, inform you
of the optimal time for submersion?
So you want it?
Yeah, you want it bad. And just how bad do you want it? You want it real
bad. And if you get it you'll want more, want it till you end, and if there
is no end, you'll want it all the more.
But how can you see if it's what you really want? When you can't know, can
only feel. But it's not a question of balance or form, you say, or a question
of anything, for that matter. So you wait and listen think of what you hear...
Yeah.
Express yourself.
Squeeze head vice tight.
Yeah you got it.
You got it.
Yeah?
|
|