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Roasted Alsatian

from Emerging Markets by Erich Zann / The Shrander

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Two nights ago I heard them drag their sticks
along the hall outside my door.
Next morning there were gouges a half-inch thick
in the walls and in the floor.
That afternoon I suited up and I waited in the foyer
for their call.
I've never met the dusk with such hunger or been so gutted
to see the dawn.
I've never been so far away from everything I know —
I'm still at home.

A quiet moment, at rest by the fire. Dinner cooking.

The early formal experiments soon give way to
a looser expression.
Designer objects liberated from their aseptic
bourgeois prison.
A painterly spray of Murano glass and blood-soaked
packing peanuts.
Rothko prints transform to glyphs smudged on the walls
in soot.
Your knockoff Noguchi coffee table will burn
just as well as books.

Newfound freedom, at rest by the fire. Dinner cooking.

This machine was designed to kill you, and it's working.
Stop trying to fix it. Stop trying to fix it. Stop trying.

To keep yourself from starving in this place you must be willing
to draw blood.
I heard his frightened panting, I heard his master shaking
where he stood.
I let them see me coming,
it didn't do them any good.

Back to normal, at rest by the fire. Dinner cooking —
roasted Alsatian.

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from Emerging Markets, released February 23, 2018

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"His blue eyes were bulging, glassy, and sightless, and the frantic playing had become a blind, mechanical, unrecognisable orgy that no pen could even suggest." — H.P. Lovecraft, The Music of Erich Zann

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