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Dream Bug

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"Dream Bug" Hour glass rainbows sparkling crystal grainy rapids sliding intrepidly through life’s fingers their coloured sands speak in tones they are obtuse and vapid like snowflakes they fall confetti on my hands Writing you between there and here again a feckless court jester fearless sometimes walking handstands painting portraits in pedantic rhyme then a page stained, you're thumb-licked and turning metaphors gliding ghosting a snail trail planchette words miss spelled they are moulting like white feathers from cooing doves we are back in grades of one singled out on school parade while the band plays on we are all caught like grounded gefilte fish in class when the saints go marching in we’re stopped for covert mingling In the office a Nosferatu principal ignores the grief behind his two spectacles two sets of hands are requested straight knuckles down and held out the bamboo cane coaxed no passing secrets out, automata face scream time put on delay the clock to midnight on his crypt's wall, hidden strikes still a braille mind doesn't once drop the ball it smiles ruthfully dialling up the forbidden chemistry of tears, a juxtoposition from the internal well My opal sky suspended heaving dreams falling slow mo through foggy clouds are breathed in like lavender rain antiseptic are all our polished stories rehearsed repetitively then delayed and side courted tennis left hand lucid inarticulate backhanded Love all candy hearted is a fresh game pulled swiftly from a side pocket refuting singing flutes whistling and caressed by a tongue flirtatiously wetting lips a regular, pulsating change of pitch a romantic vibrato recalled he calls me a witch Scent of a woman once je t'adore now her true essence leaking their personalities mirror switched bloodied and cut pieces of peace stolen by a foolish matador she’s holding open the exit door Dream Bug walks across a marked and sullied page lines bleeding right Melting dissolved to the far corner lid sealed in a glass jar left-brained Dream Bug (LadyLabyrinth / 2020)