Headlines
flash across the screen.
All
the monsters
wear the same mask.
wear the same mask.
All
the shadows gather
just
outside
the
hospital walls.
Refrigerated
trucks whir
and rumble in Manhattan
and rumble in Manhattan
and
Long Island.
Death
comes in waves.
Joe
DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe
share
one last kiss.
A
ventriloquist holds out
an empty hand.
an empty hand.
The
lights come back on in the city
while
the world wakes
hooked on a ventilator
hooked on a ventilator
and
breathes with half a lung.
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