A Frieze of Calamity

by Elizabeth Ann   Jan 20, 2008


I comb the wastes defined by others regret, making sense of their presence and suing their humanity.

A purpose without eyes is replaced by my contempt, unfocused lest it find the black of my incense. My grievance flays in silence, abraded with the gray of indifference.

I follow a stained path broken in time's own annulment. The crust of wear is covered by a hoary frost, trapped as a flame is burned by my breath. Airless, I watch it wither in my apathy.

I am calamity s will.
What is lost.
I am the hand of death.

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