Friday, October 3, 2014

flashes

The familiar scent of the dogs used to mean home.now one goes feeding strays yearning for a nostalgia.home meant more.than a faded scent.

Dancing headlights of a passing car throw light on an estranged ceiling under which the body finds rest. And the mind goes searching. Through the alleys that passing car would have crossed. Going places. The somewheres and nowheres of the world. Of worlds.

The resounding silence of meaning. Creeps into the room. Changes color. Foams up. Sooty bubbles. Crack on a tear that slides down quietly. Without acknowledgment.

Old dreams find time to revisit. Putrified now. Faces gnaw at blurry eyed recognition's door. No answer.

Yesterday's woodpecker pecks for a while before realising today's iron door has closed out tomorrow. Wrought iron. Wrought. Rot. Some things remain untouched.locked away in the routine of prosaic everyday. The relief of banality is inexplicable. The hour of surprise is past.

That and passing dreams. Fading cars. Mirrors too honest to reflect brood in the comfort of the wall. Names and ceilings gather not the contempt of familiarity. Meaning loses grip on itself. Almost willingly. Knowledge seeks out its adversary, the repository of elusive bliss. A life in frames rushes past riding on a high speed train. A hint of a forgotten memory touches and vanishes. Nothing remains to cover the tracks. A distant whistle reminds one there should.

Death is a little room. Furnished with basics - space and emptiness. Life is an ornately done up lobby. Elaborate. Aestheticized. Nauseating in its sanitised hypocrisy. the doors between them constantly swinging. The two way traffic of many somebodies. Many nobodies. In the end only bodies. Its business as usual. Life goes on. Much like death. You complete me. They whisper to each other.

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