give the lady her xange

siren

high pitched drones

annihilate 

under constant attack

piercing

shrieking cries

amplified tone

waves goodbye

hear me

hear me

moving lips

waving flagship

stripped thigh

meat

 clinging

cinged irradiated meltdown 

core

reactor

amputated eye

tempest storm

i:storm

s'weeping sound

broomstick pole

dancers

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s'end

candy caned & brined

show at 11

sucking sound replaces

broomstick

mexanized sucking

sounds 

the numbers add up..it's all there...bleeps. grunts. gestures.  sitting with memory  engaged involved forgetting.  re-member.....excavating consciousness...time traveling.. we will come, rejoicing. snippets implanted to give some context to the story unfolding in aisle b at the self check out lane..spill on aisle b...clean-up on aisle b.

scanners read the emotion emanating as magnetic waves pulsing advertisements cortically..seam..there's an opening in the veil..seamlessly..oh, good..mr. clean brings his magick eraser to aisle b...i waited...she waited...the rush with only a few items to the exit..go ahead...no, you go...really, all that was done with some hand gestures and grunts...shuffling sound surrounded by crinkled air pop crisps...i knew why she was hesitating..she had said in so many spoken words, "i don't have enough"...is it cold enough for you? shared story of how she got from there to here and how no one told her about the winter here...canvas shoes gave it away..slippery soles for this kind of weather..i place my few items on the conveyor before emptying the contents of her cart onto the belt...the packaging outweigh the product..oh, wait..you get what you pay for..slim&you...except in this case..you pay for what you think you'll become ..the branding iron strikes....sssstttttttttt....
it was like the cashier lady was the executioner..we shuffle forward. you only got a few things..yes. you only have a few other things..i wait.. the lady tells the cashier to put my things on her total... i refuse..lady insists..i refuse..my insistence to the cashier to not proceed with ladies offer ..   this your stuff? yes. wait. we wait. that'll be $$$.  i refuse..lady insists..i refuse.. i refuse as politely and humbly as to not offend..i say it's hard everywhere and if i needed it i'd more than graciously accept her kindness. she's already said she didn't have enough.

swipe. uhmmm...you don't have enough balance on this card to cover what ya got out here...the items in the ladies cart had already been separated into must-have and wants...swipe. $hame. the lady keeps looking. she knows she ain't got enough... i give the cashier a $20 to cover the balance ..cashier extends limp handed gesture holding change...give the lady her change..standing still with my few items...the lady asks for a hug...silent staring ....we embrace in a hug...exclaiming bet she didn't tell ya about the summers either..any of ya know me know the silence was a brief interlude...

kaliope

clip clop

flip flop

cavities

excavated mourning

amputated useless limb

cellophane brain

catastrophic membrane

terror train

all aboard 

cattle car platform

blank bovine stare

calving 

standing fully gloved
at aldi's

cinaesthetic afterglow

shine little

gloworm shine

window pain

glass jaw fractured

holding

pinned

broken

I see a man standing

stooped shouldered grin

infuriated acceptance

malignancy spreads

 sharing aquarium stares

goldfish eyes bulge

ping pong 

ping pong

ball plops

terror

waves cracking

skulls

thwack!

silent thuds

stillness breaks

tension surfaces

hold this. hold this.

outstretched limbs

paralytic twin

pressure plate

textonic quakes

shattered

heart

broken body 

departs

radiator remains

thwack

tender terror

back-end shuffle

resign

dark hearted 

bootstraps

click bang

tip tapping

silent crack

love being fracked

de-forestated

after-show

imprinted bloody hearts

acetylene flame

torxed

gasping goldfish stare

ping ping

ping pong

thwack

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