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"5" benevolence and favour seemed to be absent in the world grace, a name whispered before a meal shared 5 fingers on each hand steeples, hiding people games played in reverence as a child war paint bleeding signs in the footprints the number of toes we all share peace in the closed eyes that stare through screens invoking absence of real glimpses of other lives tortured invisible monsters are found in webs everywhere dreams snuffed viewed comfortably numb 6 by 3 on an 8mm film reel left poetic for dead crushes to save the day (LadyLabyrinth / 2022) "Comfortably Numb"/Pink Floyd https://youtu.be/_FrOQC-zEog "Dead Crush"/ Alt-J https://youtu.be/GOJUNJ1o394 Dead Crush refers to a person no longer living you would ascribe to having a ‘crush’ on, to love. The term emanates from Alt-J song “Dead Crush”, referencing Lee Miller, Anne Boleyn, Sylvia Plath, as dead crushes. Lee Miller / American/ WWII https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/lee-millers-second-world-war Lee Miller/Photographer https://pleasekillme.com/lee-miller-photographer/ “The Nazi guards had hanged themselves, and were dangling from the walls, necks blackened with bruises, tongues swollen and protruding. Miller took their portraits. Hitler had committed suicide and his house at Berchtesgaden was set aflame. After duly photographing that pyre of insensate evil, Miller went with David E. Scherman to Hitler’s apartment, where the pair ran a bath in Hitler’s tub, stripped off their uniforms and took turns scrubbing away the grim remembrance of the day’s events. Each took a photograph of the other. Hitler had installed a portrait of himself on the wall of the shower, and from under the cold gaze of the dead fascist, Miller looks over her bare shoulder at Scherman. Her dirt-caked combat boots are discarded on the bathmat, and the ashy smear of dirt on the plush bathmat is the dirt and ashes of Dachau.” “Dead Crush”, could relate to calling on a plethora of characters in today’s world’s current events. One could consider Jesus Christ, a dead crush, for eg. Or for that matter, any hero of substance, no longer living … or perceived, as no longer living... What does 5 represent spiritually? "Symbolizing God's benevolence and favour toward us, the number five is grace." "There are five books of God's Law, known as the Pentateuch. ('Penta' meaning five): Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy." Www/666 https://www.av1611.org/666/www_666.html Logo, Cern https://home.cern/ all sorts of wars https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/dead_crush_1230545