Lossy
BY KEith Blank
I’ll try to write the image, so listen if it’s good, but I can’t guarantee clarity
You’ve got yourself on the gummy pull,
A spiral of romance memory become nothing in time
Ascending the tower of babble, I declare the hurting word to be growth,
To be gross like the rat trap tossed
So do not push but release from the gummy pull, the sticky and delicate path to Hell behind you,
A dragon of headlights heading into the light
Soft, circling and endless
Walk away from the place and never turn sideways twice, never become a phantom like I did
I chose to become a phantom, become a little shadow on a wall with a light flicker indicating life
This is where I spend my time
Blank sent for me and I answered
I staggered right into the silver-tip claws of the masochist werewolf
Managing to squirt out twenty-five years young as the ravenous bastard made carcass of me
And then I became phantom, shuttled into passing shadow before I could read my tired poem
Machine Gummies are the source of upset, and now that my ugly body is slashed in half, I can
really say what I mean
The desire for things past has returned, withdrawn are my reservations over the bruised and
beaten dead horse
Now, I will polter along until sunset in tremors of forgetting and remembering a time outside
time
Well I was three or four once,
I was a tense homebody and then I felt remembered
I was a beautiful creature with clear color nails and no concept
But then Blank sent for me and I answered with haste
Keith Blank is a California resident spending his time in lockdown tending to his goats, playing card games, and fixing fences. He writes about memory, generation loss, dreams, and digital lives