Just Answer the Phone

It starts with avoiding phone calls pricks up into chills when no more can be avoided oozes into dreams of teeth falling out by the dozens stalks past awash in fear nothing can be saved from the gaze of Other And why should you be saved you who have not earned the right to be sad when others have known grief deeper than the well everyone must now drink from, instead of putting confidence in the clear waters that were So nothing is to be done but bash away at bystanders again and again and again because the darkness holds no fear now it was and has always been people that terrify even when they hold out the well-wishing well-waters to your lips