Inferno

Why did you impel away?

I walked on the outside of the fire alive;

how can that be?

How plenteous was lost?

Nothing was lost: it was all

destroy Destruction

is the flow of action.

Was there a real fire?

I remember going back into the house twenty years ago,

trying to save what we could

Porcelain and thus on. The smell of sooty vapor

on everything.

In my dream, I built a funeral funeral pile

For myself, you understand.

I cogitation I had suffered enough.

I thinking this was the end of my body: fire

seem the right extreme point for hunger;

they were the same thing.

And still you didn't die?

It was a dream; I notion I was going home.

I remember telling myself

it wouldn't work; I remember thinking

my mind was too stubborn to die.

I thinking soul was the same as consciousness

probably everyone thinks that.

Why did you put in motion away?

I woke up in another world.

As simple as that.

Why did you stir away?

The world changed. I walked on the outside of the fire

into a different world-maybe

the world of the dead,.for all I know.

Not the extreme point of need but need

raised to the highest power.

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