Conscripted accordions
are exhaust/
ed.
Fall off the line
to pass the tense.
Slash into a pause
as a prescription
another medial
medical analogy
as murderously metaphorical
as an elitist post-script,
pre-sifted for golden hours
photographed so that the
smiles winning the pictures
can re-confirm satisfaction
with the way the whirl has un/
folded, bellowing fold to the other
hands, taking the pot to the kettle
and discovering the cast iron truth:
death seasons its precursor
with the irony tongue tonic
a dietary supplement only supplanted
by the disambiguation
of every cell
into every unopened space.
Roman Ryan 