you open the door
and
find the hanging man
what you've been chosen for here
isn't clear
but listen
he has a wife and he
has
a child
a room full of
books without
words
a cigarette grown cold
in an ashtray
and what happened is that he
woke up and
the house was on
fire
the last great war
hadn't
begun yet
but the
streets were full of starving children
do you remember
the stench of corpses?
do you believe that
god and the devil are the same?
this is the question
you
need to
ask your lover when she
kneels before you
ignore her words when she answers
but watch her hands
listen to the passing traffic
and is this a room where
every mirror has been turned to
the wall?
it matters
your smile can only hold
so much broken glass
the clocks will
only
run backwards
until
they reach zero
think about
all of the lies your
father ever
told
you
walk to the end of
the hall
and open
the door
the possibilities are
never as
endless as you'd like to
believe
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