Mercy Living

It is still that night.

It is forever that night.

All you remember

is a party          a party

& you stoned

               not knowing

it would be forever

                        forever

like a granite cliff

above a river

immense in your shriveling—

fetus-like they say—

a reverse of birth

a slow dying

                       dying

to faint

               deadly

department store music.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2006

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