literature

chemicals

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Literature Text

the alchemist mingles and melts and mixes
yet you don't turn to gold; i know you are
already made of [e]motionless metal, indoors-

where cosy hearth-fires used to tickle skin of inside
intestines and intestines and cellularity, lobsterlike red
as are your brain wisps still- happy pink, they call it

but fish are to be eaten only, and you carelessly dance a duet
with the white unscrupulousness, back and forth-
till your lobsters of sense shrink and shrink and shrink

at last, you are gold
Please let me know what you think. (:

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Eremitik's avatar
A tough one to decipher-
What I get from this is someone wanting us to be something were not and how, like an alchemist who never tires of trying to turn lead to gold, that someone never quit trying to get us to be something we are not; And how, unlike lead, we are malleable enough to eventually become what they want us to be.