my cell

my cell: five chambers made of cement one hundred lovers; fingerprints mark my cell foggy gray as ash—one window only a palm can pass to my heart: my cell my cell: my mind—cold like cement is my organ I forget how to play— dense as basement floors—a storage bucket to keep the keys to the front door my cell: my heart—keys of black and white the sound of dead elephants

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