Solve me.  Fix me.  Save me.
 
You are the hail storm, each thrump a nail catching the coffin lid.
Go, eat your own sins, these bodies did not grow rigid on your account.
 
Blood-honey enigma, you draw pity-breath from your audience. Solve me
Fix me.  Save Me.   You promise your pieces will grease-slot into private places.
Then stir, a tornedo, a purpose.  A grey cog in the misery wheeled machine.
 
The dawn is a muddied fool to you.  The blinkered stars a memoriam
you insist on sharing, like a stale communion body.  You host and speak
for all of us gladly.  Your pain the only real connection we have to Him.
 
A Magpie in your jet long tailed coat, you gleam bottle tops, plucking
treasured coins from the eyes.  A black-hooded killer passing out redemption.
Pushed and shoved, we are the tin chink shudders to your magnetic whims.
 
Clip your feathers close - deliver your black rimmed code elsewhere.
Go back to picking over your children’s bones.

Jennie Owen

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