SOMEONE'S UTTER
CONFLAGRATION
There are just so many ways to skin a cat -
though there are more than one - and we've
probably seen them all. Watching transfixed
at some late-night TV image playing, over
and over, that shot to the head, the assassin's
video, the long-range leap to someone's death.
Tall buildings pale by comparison, even if
they do gently bend down to swoop up
the jumper. It's more of the same, what the
eyes see or foretell. The contagion loop
of expectation, like that famed rock wall
surrounding Riverdale itself, where the
old 'Injuns lost it all, nay, gave it up,
walked away having lost - yet again -
right before the slaughter, another
parcel of land; something they
didn't know about at all.
CONFLAGRATION
There are just so many ways to skin a cat -
though there are more than one - and we've
probably seen them all. Watching transfixed
at some late-night TV image playing, over
and over, that shot to the head, the assassin's
video, the long-range leap to someone's death.
Tall buildings pale by comparison, even if
they do gently bend down to swoop up
the jumper. It's more of the same, what the
eyes see or foretell. The contagion loop
of expectation, like that famed rock wall
surrounding Riverdale itself, where the
old 'Injuns lost it all, nay, gave it up,
walked away having lost - yet again -
right before the slaughter, another
parcel of land; something they
didn't know about at all.
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