You steal your life
from your cheek and your chest.
Your god is your soul, fracked,
burning in the sky
You steal your life
from your cheek and your chest.
Your god is your soul, fracked,
burning in the sky

Someone with his key has
tagged my window – scratch
scratch his little itch – so
I see him and not
the water the school the wood –
see his soul stretched. Yes,
I see and am with him, I am
in him now and go with him.
I go with him all around.

The blacker the branch, the
redder the eye that
peers knowingly in my room
Once while
sick at school
in the nurse’s bed
I thought of spies
and crossed the room
and never tripped the alarm

Detail from “Apocalypse” by Marc Mulders. Catharijneconvent, Utrecht.
Not calling.
It ending.
Never saying thanks.
A rigor short of mortis
Troubled by the flood below