BURNING SOUL

Put the case, Pip, that here was one
pretty little child out of the heap,
who could be saved... The legal advisor
had this power; " I know what you did, and
how you did it.  You came so, and so,
This was your manner of resistance, you'went
so and so, you and such and such things
to divert suspicion.  I have tracked you
through it all, and I tell it you all.
Part with the child...give the child
into my hands."
                                 - Charles Dickens
                                     Great Expectations



Don't ask us what it's like
in that moment when the body
skitters away from that stupid
sheepy shape of breath.

Down here, no one asks.
We all died
Boot to throat

We all went out
shrieking some Bloody name
                               - Danielle Parfunda
                                 " The Dead Girls Speak In Unison"



When we creak your step
When we crack your glass
When we tap, tap ,tap

That is a Bone

That is all we have

Though we are very shiny,
    and filled with beetles
We are made entirely of Bone.
                            - Danielle Parfunda
                              "Dead Girls Speak In Unison"



We're stitching up
all your fancy mistakes

We're stitching up
Your Mother's face.

We're going to stitch you a new one

We're going to take our time.
                               - Danielle Parfunda
                                  " Dead Girls Speak In Unison"



In the Worst of all men there is
a little bit of good that will destroy them.
                              - William Rose (1914-1987)



For the Soul is Dead that slumbers...
Dust thou art, to Dust returnest.
Was not spoken of the Soul.
                              - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
                                 "A Psalm of Life"