Pain's Accretion

 Pain's accretion--black snaked with royal purple--

therewith and moreof in cold case of less--

pain inexorable.

Fear's favorite pet spoilt with handling.

Pain's redemptive quality is repulsed by plain

sight, it must mobilize malignancy, purloin the

jury, condemn, palm hope to hopelessness.

Fixity--its host must remain in firm attendance.

Enough is ready...a ripened type of dialogue...

the crosshairs of silence.

To grow demented from overstimulation,

to become overtly tactile, to: kick, stroke,

smack, punch, flick anything.

Fetal position suffices...warm, a spinning vinyl

record scratching toward dawn.

The woodwork calls a name--as a woman hoarse...

with labor pain.

Konstantinos Mark

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