#poetry
Two Ways of Looking at Plague/Nothing Changes
I.
The steady rhythm of indifferent machines
in the lazarettos
is the music
punctuating the bureaucratic silence of death.
Two Ways of Looking at Plague/Nothing Changes
I.
The steady rhythm of indifferent machines
in the lazarettos
is the music
punctuating the bureaucratic silence of death.
In the lazarettos
the heartbeats of hostages are
punctuating the bureaucratic silence of death,
breaking time into teardrops.
The heartbeats of hostages are
the fury of grief,
breaking time into teardrops
staining the reality of now.
the heartbeats of hostages are
punctuating the bureaucratic silence of death,
breaking time into teardrops.
The heartbeats of hostages are
the fury of grief,
breaking time into teardrops
staining the reality of now.
The fury of grief
is the music
staining the reality of now:
the steady rhythm of indifferent machines.
is the music
staining the reality of now:
the steady rhythm of indifferent machines.
II.
In the lazarettos
the steady rhythm of indifferent machines
is the music
punctuating the bureaucratic silence of death.
In the lazarettos
the steady rhythm of indifferent machines
is the music
punctuating the bureaucratic silence of death.
The steady rhythm of indifferent machines
and the heartbeats of hostages are
punctuating the bureaucratic silence of death.
Breaking time into teardrops.
And the heartbeats of hostages are
the fury of grief
breaking time into teardrops.
staining the reality of now.
and the heartbeats of hostages are
punctuating the bureaucratic silence of death.
Breaking time into teardrops.
And the heartbeats of hostages are
the fury of grief
breaking time into teardrops.
staining the reality of now.
The fury of grief
is the music
staining the reality of now
in the lazarettos.
© 2020 RC deWinter
Published in Ariel’s Dream @arieljournal
November 2022
is the music
staining the reality of now
in the lazarettos.
© 2020 RC deWinter
Published in Ariel’s Dream @arieljournal
November 2022
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