Before You
It's light in the room or dark in the room
either way she's knitting in the corner
There are cobwebs or everything is hospital
rooms collapse together and furniture assembles
into small murders of turned legs and flat expanse
Imagine the room before you
there were probably others who entered but maybe not
For a moment pretend you are the first here
before your eyes were here in their skull the room was not
The threads of it were busy of course
pulling themselves together for the eventual seeing
but otherwise there was only the void of not
She was here knitting though
blind to the concept of seeing
There is a tingle at the back of the skull
that is the signal that things aren't all right
that it is perhaps time to run for it
You should always embrace that feeling it is
the feeling of saving your ever-loving flesh
It's a trap
the thinking of yourself as the first
it's a kind of magic and a kind of narcissism
To look away would be to erase yourself
the room will unmake walls will not hold each other up
She will pick her thread though
will measure it against the length of her arm
will place the heavy shears to the length
There is the option to not look into the room
to not allow it to exist at all
Though no one has ever not looked
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