The Bloody End
The way it was warned.
She didn’t kiss goodbye at the lounge.
Paste that in the catalogue of haste.
So easy to be debris.
So close to throwing out the last thing touched -
The shampoo bottle emptied that morning.
& now, seekers of the sky thrill,
Players in the gravity go gawping groundward.
Into red blankets & black zip-up bags -
Rolls of zip-up bags - rolls like tongues -
Chocolate peeled from patisserie eclairs.
Rivets & teeth & lost, her face in the haze.
Hoses snake & steel steams & suitcases
Smoulder & skin moulders, baked like potato,
& lovers went insane in the clouds -
Clothes like raindrops.
All knickers & bras & Bermuda shorts.
Hang the trees like baubles & tinsel.
Some Christmas this.
Snow caked in a confetti of metal.
Technology tamed by terrain lies timeless
& this was who & can identify by
& prowl the strewn secrets vampires of intrigue
Scavenging the fossils of flame for clues.
A flaw in the fabric then fight the fall.
She didn’t kiss it goodbye but blame
The way it was
How easy blame grenades all feeling.
So was this an aircrash
Or just the bloody end of a love affair -
The anthropology of endings.
Everything you were not as once thought.
Break open the black box -
For what other colour could hold endings -
See the built in memory relapse & tell all
& give it a name. A name of nothing.
The name is the way it has to be.
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