i tell you there are 5 black doors in front of me
and i want to paint one red.

amnesia is typically violent.
non-penetrating business is common
and reasonably understood.

the brain suffers playback.
non-penetrating violent failure.

don’t scrimp recreating the crime
in the shittiest room of a motel 8.
cut her toenails a little too close.

the picture in the 4th hallway is of a real
king but the painting next to it is fake.

time starts behind every door.
light moves across walls, self-reflective.
a mosquito buzzes in F#.

confabulation takes over where heaven ends.
a lie disguised as déjà vu.

we are what fills in gaps in god’s memory.
the cafeteria line moves in a fugue state.
choose any soup, warm or cold.

desire, unlike color, is not remembered.
no chance of reoffending.