Mercy, in the present tense.
Thu, 2 Sep 2010 at 09:45pm
first text's title, or subtitle
Eyes of horror of
Stinging swelling pleading.
Freeze. You hell.
High soft sounds of sobs.
Waiting. Skin
And shoulders laugh
Up and down up and down. Walk
Around in circles a crow prepare to
Swoop
And land or topple and buckle and fall and die
On some soft carpet
Or
In the corner of a room.
Too, too small this room. With no doors
Or windows or sound. No.
No energy.
Silence silence stop and
Scream -
Cannot scream no noise only throbbing pants of breath. A woman
Giving birth on mute - no noise just
Fear you breathe like her. Open throat.
Howl. Rocking,
Swaying
Up and down up and down
Tighten muscles breathe arms up to hair
And pull and howl. Bow head and
Fall,
And hold knees and cry. And cry and cry and cry.
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I think you might be doing crazy awesome things with line stops here but to be sure I'd want to hear this aloud...
I would gladly read this aloud if I had the available equipment! I am struggling to tell if even I like this piece. The line stops and everything are deliberate, just meh