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DVDs Under The Bed
/The Shining/Omen/Insomnia/
/Night and Fog/Pan’s Labyrinth/
/Nosferatu/Angels and Demons/
/The Night of the Living Dead/Scream/
/The City of Lost Children/Cat People/
/The Sixth Sense/Carnival of Souls/
/Carrie/The Silence of the Lambs/
/Gods and Monsters/Santa Sangre/
/Children of The Corn/Borderland/
/The Exorcist/Deliver Us From Evil/
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Watching Their Building Burn to the Ground
A.
Did you expect it
to cave in
like that?
B.
Our world was meant
to shrink
in this universe.
A.
What makes you
say that?
B.
You know the assassins
plan and get away.
A.
This flaming ruin
has to scare you.
B.
I’ve broken in
my bequeathed paranoia.
The landlord’s
smirking adolescent boy
with calculated short hair
& a gallon tin of gasoline
walks by & winks.
A.
I want to scream,
but who
will hear us?
Who at all
would want to hear us?
B.
You were never ready
for this, were you?
Not even a change
of underwear.
A.
I learned too late.
B.
That might look great
on a headstone.
* A version of “Watching Their Building Burn to the Ground” first appeared in Montréal Serai.
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Until next time,
keep writing.
Peace,
Andrés