some white writ somebody

slash please this scared

stop sleep simply starved

bathing, blasted, bombed

encrusted excavated thick

with sin simple and its

opposite - faith not virtue

stanzie slipped sat still

rather dared not stand

motioned to the second hand

decided "it is cold"

decided "I am old"

and rather undeserving

silly simpered Stanzie flushed in the neck rock children on ice most delightful shrimp in laugh-land stockinged ladies at the bar maids tinkling mother & son in hockey helmets tipping their chins

awake, half & screaming recognizable voices warn into her left ear:

Follow. Fire.

she wakes then sinks back into cold sweat sleep epileptic or only crazy only blue-veined blanched ripe

cold though the night describing

fresh though the timers keeping

rather kind, rather familiar