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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: 'Death's Trumpet' | ||
3 | project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' | ||
4 | project-order: 43 | ||
5 | genre: 'verse' | ||
6 | |||
7 | epigraph: 'So Death plays his little fucking trumpet. So what, says the boy.' | ||
8 | epigraph-credit: 'Larry Levis' | ||
9 | ... | ||
10 | |||
11 | He didn't have any polish so he spit-shined the whole thing, \ | ||
12 | top to bottom. It gleamed like maybe a tomato on the vine \ | ||
13 | begging to be picked and thrown on some caprese. Death loved caprese. | ||
14 | |||
15 | He stood up and put the horn to his lips, imagining \ | ||
16 | it was a woman he loved. He blushed as he realized \ | ||
17 | it was a terrible metaphor. \ | ||
18 | He practiced for six hours a day---what else to do? | ||
19 | |||
20 | Death looks at [himself in the mirror][moongone] as he plays. \ | ||
21 | The trumpet is suspended in midair. Damn vampire rules. \ | ||
22 | Death is always worried he might have missed a spot shaving \ | ||
23 | but he'll never know unless a stranger is polite enough. \ | ||
24 | Not that he ever goes out or meets anyone. | ||
25 | |||
26 | He wakes up late these days. Stays in bed later. \ | ||
27 | He thinks he might be depressed. The caprese has gotten soggy \ | ||
28 | since he made it, maybe three days ago or maybe just two. \ | ||
29 | The sun streams through his kitchen blinds like smoke. \ | ||
30 | He decides to go to the arcade. When he gets there, | ||
31 | |||
32 | there's only a [little boy][] with dead eyes. So far so good. \ | ||
33 | He's playing a first-person shooter. Death walks past him \ | ||
34 | and watches out of the corner of his eye. The kid's good. \ | ||
35 | Death wants to congratulate him. His trumpet is in his hand. | ||
36 | |||
37 | [moongone]: moongone.html | ||
38 | [little boy]: angeltoabraham.html | ||