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| Upon a Couch, Atrophy |
| A thumb hits the rubbery | button, |
| making her cocked arm fling a boomerang |
| strapped with a grenade. | and boom! |
| A cement truck crashes through, pulls out |
| (with a debri waterfall), and creaks open |
| the passenger door of white and luring flash. |
| She steps in, slowly, wide-eyed, and sinks |
| snuggly into a cloudlike plush that effuses |
| a tranquilizer likewise to the engine drone |
| that shuttles toward an edifice with tumbled |
| entrance doors. There, too, a light emmits. |
| Inside, a glass counter displays paukikape1s |
| stringed with tiny notes of publicly accepted |
| numerals. Her thumb hits the next channel, |
| and moves the conveyer belt. She stares, |
| aims, and flattens her | The shuttle |
| returns, but first empties its revolving load |
| over a buried and forgotten treasure site. |
| She unfolds the car visor. A smirk returns |
| from the mirror. A sgasata2 throws her |
| against the seat. Her boots begin grunting, |
| squeezing, and pulling. Violently, the door |
| breaks off its hinge, | /skips against |
| the asphalt. (She gets it next.) Her back |
| drags bloody toward a Doppelganger-pile. |
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1 Paukikape (Ancient Greek) - A projecting collar worn by slaves while gardening corn in order to prevent them from eating it. |
| 2 Sgasata (Italian) - Sudden/Violent acceleration. |