Lonely House

Met death on the stairs;
the rooms like moods.

Stars are alone; viewed
from the outside the Dyson sphere

of my dolor is
pistacchio green.

The austere chrome
faces stare into posterity.

Sometimes I forget
everyone who's dead.

Ring around the sun
pocket full of

dynamite, candy dots
on ribbons of parchment

dumb brail that trails,
sebaceous, over the cracks

that break the backs
of lovers & Romantic doubles,

a farce of lost phone
chargers & a hopscotch court

for sorrow, for
mirth, for weddings & the birth

of a thousand tomorrows.  There's
a vacuum where heaven

might've been
if only the opera hadn't taken so long

to get started.  A wardrobe
filled with moth holes &

bowler hats.  An audience chatting
during your solo,

devouring mouthfuls of popcorn
& Cheez-its as you

solemnly remove your eyeballs
& stagger in circles,

your gore a calligraphic
signature across the boards.



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