the flood

flood_1: it may be better that way
to conquer time and the world
is to pass, and not leave a trace
to pass, and not leave a shadow on the walls


flood_2: i didn't want this, not
this(but listen,quietly
to want is what bodies do
and now we are ghosts)



flood_3:these hotels are not consoling places. far from it. any number of people had hung their hats on these pegs. even the flies, if you thought of it, had settled on others' skin. as for the cleanliness which hit him in the face, it wasn't cleanliness, so much as bareness, fridgitity: a thing that has to be.