Kit Kelen #246 - staging my disappearance

246

staging my disappearance

not that I don't enjoy being here

but I like not being here too

a kind of tug-o-war

I'm always imagining it

simple as putting on lipstick

now you're someone else

now the other-one-you-were is gone

like putting a new hat on

or like the slippers with the holes

where the toes escaped

and where are those toes now?

this is not something I planned before

'from where to where' the cops will ask

you'll say it implies being somewhere-in-the-else

true up to a point

superannuated

demise staring down

but not in the end

though that's highly subjective

like the penis of the famous fairytale

soft to the touch no matter how hard

after all we're all still here

we are the mortal remains