Mosaics from Room 32​-​B

from Apocalyptic Love Songs by Chris Goudreau

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Of wrinkled and degenerate skin
That sags and sticks to clocks
The old man took his fill
He took his wings and left them in his wallet
Grandkids made of scrap meals and cussed out walls
Bought him a wheelchair, bent and used
With rolled up paralysis

With arthritis stained hands
He made a prophecy out of coupons
Declaring “Peace for our time!”
To the millions of hallowed customers
Who told him that buy one, get one free is to surrender
And then he stuffed them in dressers
Next to shoes and socks

Now comes the cigarette, puffed and cradled
The fill of its tobacco crust
He likes to smoke it on the porch
With his little bit of hair making a home
From the musty scent of dried nicotine
Licks at the brown
Doubles up the batch
And wears his consistency

And through the smoke he sees
Old Frank in a bag of skin and bones

Old Frank who claimed that he was 903
Who swore that he was Houdini’s apprentice
Who cursed at the laws of entropy by saying “What the hell”
And who ate up cancer in the silence of a bedspread

Between the dim, he stares
At the walls around him
And listens for the change as it happens

From the night’s gallery
Dull patients make their mark
And his ears tune to rushed breaths and thudding
What he heard came suddenly
Like a flicker of a light

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from Apocalyptic Love Songs, released June 9, 2023

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