Imprint, memory, impact, representation, impression
Worse Lift
Above and behind a window opens and a cigarette hangs out.
Windrush Art Kid Oligarch
One of the birds shoots out of the tree.
It's
dusk
in a snowy forest and I'm playing with a fox.
It bites my wrist but there is
only a dull ache.
I feel that it wants to say sorry but can't. I die.
She says something that isn't really right but isn't really wrong. I'm not taking in their words any more, just
their voices, trying to get a feel for whatever is going
on between them.
I'm imagining what it's like
for them in this delicate situation, what I would say
if it were me.
She has that perfect upper-class accent, and she's using whatever upper-class tact that comes with it to navigate this. Style. They can't be together, but their voices are betraying them.
The bird dives back into the tree. It shakes, some leaves fall.
"I'm only attracted to you", he replies. "Like, you only."
"No, it'll get cold!"
"Put a tut ahh put a-"