Seventh Sense*


Channon. Chris.Thinking of this
Must open the window
I feel the retching asphyxia of one who knows
they were told a lie.
Here, at the very end of the earth-
It is still safe in one's car...
to cry.

"Don't look" says the boy. "close your eyes!"
(in this part of the loop)
she also cries.
Sobs, pleading, and finally , the bargaining.
There will be no compromise.

Another "sleep"

Another "round"

(" I will get through this. I want to live. What doesn't kill me makes me stronger" " I will come out of this alive")
For she is young, and these comfort her.


No punishment is forgotten.
When they tire of her flesh,
The last hours they try to steal her will, her spirit, her dignity
They succeed.

Now she is praying.
Some verse I have heard before.
"Please, let this end"..
She thanks her parents,
asks God to take care of them,
Christopher's face.

A winter rope swing ..
off a precipice
Unties.
She flies. ("i'm free, I can breathe!")
The endless horizon , summerland sky.

The black, fixed in the camera
in the blue of her eyes.



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*in reference to the title -the 7th sense would be WN, I suppose this is what you get when you combine 6th and 7th. This is not a "candlelight vigil" feel-good type of thing-

Congratulations, Briseis. I do believe you are the very first person to attempt to evoke the horror of the crime. To colorize it, as it were.

Just as the junk media claim they've been covering it all along, they claimed almost from day two that everybody was sick of hearing the details - details that were never printed, let alone discussed or set evocatively, as in a poem or Style piece.

I want to kill those apes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks, structure needs work, was written in my car in about an hour-have kept poetry stuff to SF. I toned it down from the original, content-wise, might not have been appropriate - hard to write about terrible , disgusting things and not make it either too 'offensive' (if someone who knew them should read it) or the other way- sappy and maudlin, too far away from the horror- wanted to keep an element of realism, especially the end line.

Sadly excellent

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