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Intensive repetition or chanting of a word will cause
its meaning to alter and shift / Filth / Filth / Filthy ones.
Also, when conjoined as a universal adjective or adverb
it will cease to be of any effect / Filthy love / Filthy hate
/ Filthy joy / Filthy fear / Filthy rage / Filthy thoughts /
Filthy memories / Filthy rooms / Filthy bodies / Filthy
acts / Filthy deaths
In isolation from all others, mirroring only itself, its
meaning is empty, its power lost, its dangerous abilities
rendered impotent / however, the vacuum thus created
begins to suck away all other meaning and significance /
once incited, the consumption proceeds unstoppably, in
geometric progression, dissolving great patches of infinitude
and potentiality.
progression, dissolving great pay.
progression, dissolving great patches of infinitude
and potentiality.
The body of my mother, Marguerite, implodes. Pressure
from the eyes of the grieving children and the
weight of the hot, still air squeeze the skin down between
her ribs and tighten it around her bones. Each
breath, her mouth gaping and dried, escapes more fully,
enters less. The stump of her leg lies withered beside her
uncovered sex--stretched tightly over the jutting ridges
of her pelvis. All the light of the room is devoured by the
hungry eyes of the children. Hers, fixed, empty, half-open,
gasp at the darkness as it pours in, filling her. The long
waiting leading to these massive, corroding seconds is almost
over, the one leading away almost begun. Her last breaths
are exhaled directly into the distant mouths of the children. Their
organs writhe, seeking to break their frozen bodies into motion
that will not come. Movement is hardly possible under the great
weight of this waiting.