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On Beheading

from Sheer Curtain by Alex Curtis

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i never saw their faces
but i could guess that they were smiling
when they left me tied

with a nylon rope

to the back of a winged horse

that flew into

the sky

sometimes i imagine
that i’m living in the jungle
and if I close my eyes

if i close my eyes
i can hear the tiger growling
at a level of fourteen hertz

and it instantly fills me
with anxious dread

the beads of sweat that poured off of my face
turned to pearls as they hit the wooden floor

and bounced under all the old furniture
some bounced out the door

and as I leapt to retrieve them
all of a sudden a thought came over me

what if all of this is real?
what if all of this is real?

sheer curtains hung at the entrance of the catacombs
and i noticed as i looked inside

that an apparition cloaked and jeweled was floating between the bodies
picking violets that were growing from their eyes

i sat in a leather bar on 12th Street
thinking to myself
about the last thing that I’d be wearing
when i died

so i put lipstick on
and i took my clothes off
and i made a piss and flour glue mixture
to cover my whole body in gold leaf

then I receded into the night
and suddenly it was much colder outside

there was a hologram of a dagger pointing downward
hanging somewhere between the ocean and the sky
and like a beacon i was drawn to it
but more, to what it guarded:

a beautiful naked siren
with sable hair
standing lightly on the surface of the water
with her arms in the air

and with one hand
she held the head of the idol
and with the other she was reaching for something

she was reaching for something
bigger

“i want to say something profound, i don’t want to end up dead outside a karaoke bar

“i want to take purposeful action” she told me
as she stared with sincerity at my hands

“If we’re not rebuilding
everything
disappears”

“and if we’re not destroying,
it’s a boring heaven”

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from Sheer Curtain, released May 14, 2016

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