Contagious Thoughts
Hell is a state of mind
heaven, too,
and old carbon copy of (what was) me
tempest-torn
divided grounds
the skeletons of rhetoric
a lone soliloquy
performed to an audience of cadaverous Yous
in a torpor of spectators
thoughts contagious as a plague
sharing madness and shelter
at the end of all things
where thoughts are stillborn live
and me an omniscient narrator
scary like a translating pun
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