wake up sleepy head
forget the past fifteen years
today is the day
wake in an orchard
sunlight breaks through the branches
grass between my toes
staring at the door
i dreamt it was your birthday
and that i loved you
fear creeps up my spine
the sense of being followed
from each dark corner
mosquito bitten
sun-burnt and dehydrated
we trudge through the swamp
a robot creature
that for some reason hates me
“don’t break in my car”
unopened letters
vitamin d deficient
the room lit by screens
a turn of the wheel
one more solar rotation
please keep on living
a puddle forming
a sentence left unfinished
a dish best served cold
some minutes later
i notice i’m on fire
the rain never comes
the vile creature writhes
a limbless mass of wet flesh
convulses and spits
you see yourself there
you don’t know how you got there
and yet there you are
we danced and we danced
we gave a blood sacrifice
but the rain still came