Wednesday, February 8, 2023

Adrian Matjeka

 


Case (Brass or Steel)


Brass again, wishing to be a lost key or a better Victorian decoration. Brass again, wanting 
to alloy in a gentle fashion. Steel, too, taken from ship sides or the skeletons of skyscrapers. 
Steel can be a fist-bumped architecture, full of the empty seats fans used to sit in. Or car bumpers 
dented in claustrophobia. The STOP sign nobody slows down for when cops aren’t around at the 
fork in the road.  Forks in the drawers of the local establishments that only serve take out now & 
butter knives for the drunken disagreements, past & future. Nerves steeled by food & beer. Abs 
of steel, too, in the old commercials on the TV in the corner. 

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