‘ah she comes around
like a good little beta’
she heard them say
her eyes unopened
but she wasn’t playing dead
‘yes, doktor, realigned her, you see
a very simple task
when you understand the framework
for she is more compliant
than she appears’
she asked the question
and he had answered
(or rather, they had answered for him)
dotting the landscape with towering obelisks
and reflecting pools that shimmer
the unyielding stone
and the watery mirrors
all demanding the same answer
‘haven’t you figured it out yet?’
the catholic-faced messiah says
‘the signs are all around you, miss…
resistance is futile’
caterpillar girl
tearing the chrysalis open
just to breathe
come up for air
you see, the cup of wrath is bottomless
when it is your own
they close her up
with surgical skill
and pray for the best
the stitches should heal
within a few weeks
‘maybe she will get it right this time’
09 May 2005