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Short-lived Queen

Inspired by a dream of a dream

By Paul and Jordan AspenPublished about a year ago 1 min read
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Short-lived Queen
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4:44, dark o’clock

Dark save the moonlit memory of bared teeth and a broken gate

Having fled the flood of the thaw and that creature

Fled with... whom?

The young one, innocent

No, she only feigned innocence

And thought the devil was her friend

This “friend” threatened her life

Did she survive?

I can’t remember...

Memory... of a song... White Christmas Choreography:

Queens with routines

That would stop the show in days that used to be

Memory: the young “innocent” was the queen

One and all they're not chancing

What we used to call dancing

They're busy doing choreography

Playing a part, going through carefully planned motions

One and all keep us guessing

What the heck they're expressing

Instead of dance it's choreography!

Memory of anger that I can still feel hot against my chest

"Instead of dance it’s choreography!”

I was the one who screamed it this time

Yelled at all the women and girls in the circle

Not dancing, all feigning stories of their own imaginings

Deceiving everyone but me

So I screamed

And I ran

Past the elders who knew they knew the truth

Past the mansions built after the tornado

I ran

From grass down pavement into frosted gorge

Where the devil had been frozen, waiting for the thaw

Alive, eyes piercing through the ice

Waiting to bite

Me?

No, not me

But the short-lived queen.

surreal poetrysocial commentaryperformance poetryfact or fiction
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Paul and Jordan Aspen

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