Sackcloth and Ashes
Midnight chimed day assassination,
sudden as a brain haemorrhage,
star-stabbed by psychotic pins;
issues aborted of carbonised wombs
blacked streets, tar-slithered.
Recovering drunk, cold sobered,
imaged upon liquid plate glass,
appliances dormant and flower-pressed
beyond his ghost,
whiskey tears wept prior sins.
Crying within for little or nothing,
the once embryo of the thing he became,
or that reflections now seem
more tangible of look than
he would ever feel again.
Invisible sackcloth mantled the bones,
he wore it well,
his future path paved ashes
to some place in the dark,
the equation lacked love.
So the dead can walk, he observed,
approximating signs of life;
and so well he knew the dead,
they whispered catechisms in his head,
for he only ever talked to himself.
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