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This Fist and What It Can Claim

from Curtains: Readings from Molotov by Tom Baker by Extreme Volume Pop

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The Psychopath

I’ll trap you in the silent cathedral, a place of dour amusements,
with pick and rope and bone saw handy to take your little ego to pieces part by puzzled part,
with drill bit hammered through splintering door into the dancing figure
of the unwilling hostess
who jibbers in the darkness
at the injustice of it all.
This love is a madness born within, the sickness they say I can never shake, and with hands in grubby pockets I peer beneath beard to see the game being played by Sacred Mother in the dust.
And this place they’ve set apart for us, beyond reach of newspaper jackal and tired blue-suit eye
is perfect in the way that a thigh bone crushed
By the speculation of a weight imposed is perfect in the way it pops.
I cower in the darkness,
crouched above booby trap,
swinging the noose,
waiting for that first rustle of feet through door to know your tired gaze and slack mouth of regret.
You can write all the missives you want to the pecking vultures of public opinion, parade with placard in the streets and denounce the demons that damn you until judgment or sunrise
whichever comes first,
but this darkness is mine and eternal, and in here I am breathing
and waiting
and the only power in the world is this fist
and what it can claim.

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from Curtains: Readings from Molotov by Tom Baker, released November 9, 2019

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