Domestics (& that's the police term no?) are harsh, as you see them, Lawrence.
Should there be more of that frame slippage than the one repeat? And I wondered if 'deadly' is somehow too, we;; I dont know; I thought 'dead' as in the emotions etc...
Doug
On 2013-10-02, at 12:53 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Punches her in the face, breaking it up,
> the problems of mankind something personal;
> her mouth turns backwards flame-glowing
> to a dislocated grin, a smashed mirror.
>
> I cannot breathe. Liquid evaporating,
> trying to sound casual, stiffening her pain.
> The picture of her sticks at frame slippage,
> straddling two images held apart slightly
>
> audio hissing sound track of a dull morning.
> An observer the observer stays calm
> in stray silence, making that chance a pretence
> of will; pulling away; remaining visible
> in the midst of a deadly room in their mad household
> throughout harmful streets in a clever town.
>
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