Monday, January 12, 2026

14th Arrondissement (Body only bones)

I'm not trying to make

Lost seem like a desirable

Outcome, really there have

Been times when I thought 

I was going to die out there

Like when the friend of a friend 

Who was leading the expedition 

Told us to turn off our flashlights

To save battery because he could

Not remember the way and he

Would be right back what you

Maybe don't understand is that

We were deep under Paris entombed 

With thousand thousand thousand 

Femurs and fibula and skulls I used 

As cupholders and in those moments

Of darkness and only silence I thought 

Maybe my skull too would end up

Cupping beer bottles of the future

A girl could be so lucky but see I wasn't 

Sure that friend-of-friend would

Find the way though I don't need to

Tell you that he did

When we emerged it was freezing

Four AM on the train tracks, very much 

Alive but I do still think about my bloodless

Body only bones only bones where 

Will they be most useful 



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