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A New Year's Lease

from Tongue of a Living Skull Vol. 1 by CJ Leon

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A New Year's Lease
CJ Leon

She is greyer than the sleet that falls,
wearing everything black and balancing
her ribcage in an over-fat teenage frame,
unseasonably sleeveless and staggering
like a cloud through the pitch of a morning
that has otherwise seen much merry-making.

She presses half-folded white paper-towels
down to her upturned forearm, to her milky arm
sheathed in a coarse weave of criss-crossing scars,
and bleeds a bright red oval spot right through them:
it is something of a modernist
colour-blocking/etching effort
that leaves an incidental found-art
splatter-print on a sidewalk canvas.

Was it fear to face the sore dawning of the day
or the deft crafting of some
deep ones
for the New Year
that has her now unwillingly
escorted by our passing troupe of drunken fools?

Her protest is simple:
I'm ruining your New Year's Eve.
And she rolls her eyes
mis-stepping sideways to punctuate.
So is our response:
No, you're not.
And we watch her intently.

We hesitate when suddenly she stops.
She refuses to enter the ER if we go with her.
So we stand; and she walks in; and she disappears behind clear glass; and we all wait; and we wait, tautening the strings of conscience that pull
our bodies and our minds together again,
resurfacing from surreal winter dark,
into a new purpose and a new day:
a transition xxx more seamless
for some than others.

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from Tongue of a Living Skull Vol. 1, released April 21, 2009

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