The Voices Of The Dead Only Say The Things We Make Them Say
A book flips open
a random page
painted over and over
with the faces of your dead
An alphabet of ghosts
the words of the novel
replaced with
their eyes
Just last night
the book had been
about a woman
solving a murder
in some small
Irish town
Who signifies 'A'
and who got the 'X'
is perhaps a sort of
shade thrown wildly
in several directions
Is this psychology
a clever trick
of the dire mind
You sit in the chair
and by oranging light
you attempt to see
a thing in these lines
Graves are closed mouths
books in theory are
the vessels of dead who
cannot help but speak
Yet
these faces only want
to recount how
this woman discovered
whodunnit
They only stand for letters
they sentence plot
metaphor fails them
but they have emotional climax
and denounment for you
An ending that in some sense
could satisfy all that came before
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