hibernation
when MankindeManunkinde attains hibernation will we in its embraceits frostywhip dream
dream perhaps of scaly red seas
throwing sunlight off it like spasmsshards off a lazyturning mirrorball
of intemperate
iguanas trapped bagged and dragged on
our backs through the waves eventual provisions
eaten after theyve mated their young born
of painfullythin albinos who believe
they are uniquely feral to be feared shrillinggnashing
their pointy teeth when suspecting theyve been insulted but when ones reason is treated as an insult only
a heavy fist will shut them up their teeth
breaking like porcelain dancingspiraling
in the blue air like the whitewhiskers of dandelions
to hibernate
to sleep
to dream
if Deaths second self is sleep induced hibernation chronic sleep cant be unalike
if Deaths second self is sleep induced hibernation chronic sleep cant be unalike
he believed deep in his bones
that death was a state of non-existence its non-consciousness a holding pattern filled with dreaming
it was the only faith he held
if it turned out not to be so
hed never
know
“The trick, Potter, is not minding that it hurts.”
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