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topic: beautiful mania (fragmented)

by Rachelle Howe

they're coming for me. i'm convinced.
and don't say that i'm disillusioned
or delusional or full of delirium.
i am all those things, but...
the hoof prints shatter my mind, and
i see rainbows the color of dusk.

he has eyes, eyes like prying worlds,
and i am succumbing to them.
he bears me down.
he breaks me.
and it's beautiful, so beautiful,
these things which Alice drank.

i'm taller. about three inches since
i took the elixir (like a shot glass, one, two, three...) and
i'm playing hopsotch with my
imaginary friends.

she's here, her holiness the raggy rarah,
with grins like light fixtures.
a haunted mirror wall.
splinter.
it's saturday. i'm watching cartoons.
my pjs are three days old
(even though i just took them from the dryer.)

she's in the shower,
i hear her humming.
she hates it when i whistle.
i tell her to fuck off.

but it's beautiful, these rainbows,
these eyes, this mania.
so beautiful to be welcomed
in my own shell.

09/13/2003

Author's Note: can we say: give me a "C", give me a "R" give me an "A" give me a "Z"... give me a "Y"... what's that spell?!?

Posted on 09/14/2003
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