Tangerine and the Headless Boar
By EvolovE
Bats number the sky in thousands swelling dusk into 30 hours Mortician lines his bodies with salts of his ancestors lonely tree of family burns to the ground when the bark absorbs acid rain Clouds form to make manifestations of the molten suicide they watch They change for us to keep the leaches of the swamp from eating themselves they fold in a way unthinkable just to eat away when nothing else is left Put your finger to your mouth and chew to have more never satisfied Boar of a missing head charges into a cave formed into rock not yet opened ~ but he knows his head is inside and splatters his body to the minerals meant to be the Tangerine snake eats pork one foot at a time drags the body to the lake where arms wont find him The burned forest takes the head she stole and crowns herself she wraps Tangerine against a ripped abdomen and the snake absorbs her acid Reign reptile blends to zebra and the Stripes of tiger on her back feasts on the leaches that fold to eat themselves Written March 2nd, 2002 © on Mar 02 2002 12:20 PM PST 10 • 0
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"Bats number the sky in thousands swelling dusk into 30 hours ..."