Posted by campfire hero (160.129.27.22) on November 16, 2001 at 14:38:28:
In Reply to: Tit For Tit posted by pancho on November 15, 2001 at 12:05:03:
"The New Zero"
he has agreed
to take me
to the ice hotel
from the magazine
what we will need
is a gleaming key
made of ice as well
by the finest ice machine
it's there that no one will stare
at your jaws and your long fur
the claws in your fingers
it's in the past when the passerby laughed
at your strange way of speaking
your batteries leaking - oh no
oh God, no
they don't know
the new zero
uniforms worn
so leisurely
the reindeer skins
the privacy
how was he born?
he's asking me
flapping his fins
very impressively
i really don't care and neither does he
if this hotel melts into the sea
polished and so rare, this way that we see
the coldness helps, it's our favorite remedy
-Rasputina, from "How We Quit the Forest"