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Weathered
Iridescent Eardrums

Claire Aubin

Sycophantic similes and masochistic metaphors,
organic chemicals, crashing against each other
as the taste of kerosene
and the scent of sinful sorrow
brushes past semblances of some sort of
grief.

Garbed in black, mourning the loss
of innocence, in all it’s severity,
the moanings of a fallen comrade,
our world is
crashing down.
We’ve nothing to live for,
have we grasped something to die for?
It’s not as though the once-great patriarchs
will notice
with their greed-clouded eyes.

We’re alone in a time where distance is closeness
and electric fences are
the best way to hold
hands.
The world is whispering its last
death-rattle and we still cannot hear,
deaf to all that is not spoken
directly into iridescent eardrums,
pulsing in frenzied time to music
not recognized by anyone other than ourselves.



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