enjoy this Christopher Hivner writing
in the Scars Publications free 2011 PDF file chapbook: The Silence Brushes
My Cheek Like Glass
(click on the front cover image or the
title text to download the free PDF file)
The Documentary
Christopher Hivner
Turn it off.
Flip that switch
and it’s an easy reverie,
a Texas two step
on an empty dance floor,
blank spaces
where your puzzler used to be.
If you could turn it off,
you wouldn’t think of him
so many times
when it wasn’t convenient.
You wouldn’t wonder
what love meant to him
or when he had
the last of the cigarettes
that were killing him.
Shut it down.
Then she wouldn’t appear,
smiling for the camera
but leaving no impression
on the film.
The whole documentary
wouldn’t run
at the Theatre du Memoire,
morning, afternoon
and evening show times.
Turn if off.
But then I think,
I paid for my ticket,
I should stay
until the end.
