"Love Theme" from Stalker

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"Love Theme" from Stalker

I see ghosts in every rosebud
in every mature theme
in every deep web glimpse

What happens is everyone else gets some

What happens is fair to everyone else but me

It’s coming into focus like a new piece of spearmint:

“Baby, it's high time for a downer”

In the glowing ash of Chernobyl¹
they found a male praying mantis, blue.

Hard as cement
and headless.

And that is both deep and not deep.

I’ve been attacked in every vernacular
the shades don’t seem to work.

The soviet train keeps coming, rambling
through the night. Populated by ghost
spheres of non-meaning. Like a sepia
lens of sound.

(Do they² have use for numbers?)

By now the '80’s have been pillaged. All my soft pink
memories, stated so plainly in the construction
house. I keep going back there and the words
keep changing.

She married a military man. I feel
certain that he drinks.

And like the childbeast in Eraserhead,
I engage in hysterics. Remember me,
Philadelphia, when your corners are clean.

Remember me (see: Henry Purcell^Ω),

and walk me to the door.

¹A name I've come to associate with cough syrup.

²The builders of The Zone.

³Repeated as though dying