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a woman alone but .. surrounded by others

Annie Purpose tried to inhale whatever air stroked her limbs – their skin chilled as the flesh on a butcher’s slab laden with mottled carcasses brought mere moments before the interior of a slammed freezer door.

Numbed as was – too early awake, night had left a space in her waking yawn, followed by a  sigh from who knows to a woman unused to waking before dawn.  Seemed her day and night were yoked as her hands shuffled to her cheeks. 

You’re thinking what if..  No, she’d never take sleeping pills or see a man who would call in a second man accompanied by a uniformed teen. A triumpherate who near whistled whilst they worked were caustic clones ready to take even more, believed Annie.

She had been through a similar procedure more times than the seasons admonished the living to do unto others as.. not that anyone listened.  The woman, once fair haired and buxom was now a shadow created by would be doers or don’t-ers  willing to try anything. 

In her  world horizons bled across half dead meadows dotted with sheep. Damned raptors dived, soared, noised – infidel siblings all, near starved like most in the world but – like similar beings remained generally invisible. 

Strange how loth lovers are when the let go each other’s hands, bodies paling. Of course their eyes speak, twinkling at their audacity:  glimpsing each other’s form and life  force that endures, hope incessant, laughter permanent.

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