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The Shock
The shock will arrive via a phone call from your sister
in a strange house a house where you have never slept you've just arrived, with a suitcase a suitcase full of books. *
There is a phone call. At dinner time. The child must be fed.
There is an unexpected visitor who has been served a glass of wine the last of the wine. *
The shock arrives shockingly down the wire
you will always remember that pause, before she spoke and how the air you breathed changed shape. *
The conversation that was afoot
limps on as you come back into the room dragging the shock it's a monstrous frantic putrid snot-green shock it's howling for blood. *
Look. Already it has taken a pit bull munch
out of your softest parts slipped you a dose of don't-touch-me distance just one of the gifts that the shock packs in its kit. *
You will stand on the doorstep in the chill night air
lifting a hand in farewell the visitor is backing his vehicle out of the driveway and it will be so strange, the strangest thing you will be able to see everything at once. *
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