Clammy and Spent Death Has Climbed Off Me
So many dead bodies have climbed up
on and down off me
where my head rests it is wet there
and clammy.
The smell of it
when plunging deep into sleep
feeling by the depth I can taste
what I see
as it came and went in my dream.
If I can't see, it can see me
other's rested here
in death, death is a dream a dream few have
shared.
Low I may lay and it's humid and hot
I can't catch my breath
while the red chili hot peppers
down my neck have long since left.
Dead not in death though through the
living there not
as one after another they climb up
and get off.
Copyright © James Mclain | Year Posted 2022
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