Reflex of Purpose

from Volume Five by Quietus

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This life can be a wooden cupboard
upended in an asphalt lot. Yellow flowered
contact paper loosed, forgotten, and windstruck.
This life can be sunlit hills turned onto
their angry sides away from you
and the teeth you bare, away from you
and the face you make.
How do I get this life to your life?
How do you get your life to mine?
This life can be a dog in a cage in a river flood.
Afterward, no reflex of purpose, afterward
no need for food, afterward no time for a nice chat,
afterward, no sense of the body.
Where are you and when are you coming here?

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from Volume Five, released November 6, 2020

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