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Within The Steel Chamber

By jc mcgee

Topics: Poetry Source: AllPoetry Original source

i waited hours within the steel chamberknowing only the cool sting of divisionand feeling remorsefully somberthere among the others,the broken and the damned,rejected, plastic, toy-box menunder the darkened eyesof porcelain dolls,stiff and calculating,every breath came somehow shorterand there seemed so little differencebetween the sacred and profanehad i revealed that hourthe imperfect parts,i would have been devoured-for our pulpy heartsare like the fruit of the seasonto ghoulish figurestwisted in boxesand devoid of reasoni recall that i fellswiftly awayand all the quaint faceshung in decay......and i heard my own voice,whispering, say,'remember me always -i leave you this day.' Written October 4th, 2001 © on Oct 04 2001 04:29 AM PST, jc mcgee   0 • 10

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"i waited hours within the steel chamberknowing only the cool sting of divisionand feeling remorsefully somberthere among the others,the broken and the damned,rejected, plastic, toy-box menunder the darkened eyesof porcelain dolls,stiff and calculating,every breath came somehow shorterand there seemed so little differencebetween the sacred and profanehad i revealed that hourthe imperfect parts,i would have been devoured-for our pulpy heartsare like the fruit of the seasonto ghoulish figurestwisted in boxesand devoid of reasoni recall that i fellswiftly awayand all the quaint faceshung in decay......and i heard my own voice,whispering, say,'remember me always -i leave you this day.'..."

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