Fleeing the Null

by BOB GALLO   Feb 28, 2024


When I returned from US there was no fire left in her eyes' ingle,
no humble spirit.

I asked her what did you do with your soul?
She said: “I just augmented my breasts.”

She said she pawned her treasures to do so,
but I only heard she said she sold her soul.
I heard she sold all her goods to that pawnshop,
exchanging them for the current trite values.
Swapped quintessence with wares,
mettle with countenance

Then, I saw the connection of opposites:
The augmentation of flesh
forming a chasm of void inside the chest,
bloating curves, depletes the pneuma!

I saw the pawn man’s rotten teeth mark on her shoulder.
I burst into a bleeding laughter:
"I thought you were up grading."
She laughed back at me and said:
"Anything is an upgrade from the null,"
braggingly pointing at her bosom.

I still see those slick cuts beneath her firm breasts,
the scars of scissored wings!

Those bosoms were heavy anchors.
She was moored
permanently
in flesh.

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