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Shelter in Place

from Emerging Markets by Erich Zann / The Shrander

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So many hours, sick of
crouching in this darkened bay.
My burning quads, the icy deck,
unintelligible thuddings from the companionway,
my shaking hands.

It came upon us in the dark.
A derelict hull blotted out the stars.
An ancient curse from a faraway place,
a ravenous stowaway that came in silence for my crewmates
one by one.

Time and space deformed by unseen shapes. Shelter in place.

Someone will find this ship of ghosts —
my metal bolthole, my huddled bones —
and wonder about my final moments
with that thing out there and me alone in here,
alone alone alone.

They will not know this is a ship.
They'll think it's just a normal school.
They will not notice the pinhole breach
in the bulkhead where my spirit squeezed out and flew
to the stars.

Time and space deformed by unseen shapes. Shelter in place.

Send your mind to the black sun
that inhales all black thought.
Out in the hall he...nevermind.
I'll leave it in this black box for you.
I hope it won't seem too forward of me.
I just won't need it anymore.

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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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