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Monkey & Flea

from Impossible Bodies by Faith Eliott

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Monkey & Flea


I’ve been staring down this same feeling for weeks
It sits there in the corner like a dark heap of laundry
and I go through all the pockets
Like I’m looking for a lost set of keys
that will unlock a sealed vault that holds the truth
about what you mean to me.

I’d display it’s contents in a cabinet
Each kindness a polished stone
dated and accounted for.
The battle-axes safely secured
to a smoothly painted wall
beside the masks and various disguises
And the story of our lives would be told by a paling tapestry -
cotton threads would bind it in a neat chronology.

And poised beneath the bell jar, we would be the centrepiece.
you could be the monkey, and I could be the flea.
We’d be deaf to the shuffling parents
as they whispered to their babies
that we were sorry untameable beasts.
Our enamel eyes would be fixed upon each other eternally.

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from Impossible Bodies, released April 19, 2019

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