INDOOR PETS

it used to snow

we used to write letters

we used to use
the landline phone

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indoor pets

sewn into cloth

lap cats
eating pulp 
with steel

bedroom LED speckles

our 
new

stardust sky

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GIVE IT A NAME

give your dread a name
tame
it
make it a pet
when it next rises out the floorboards
of
any
normal
day
clutching your weakness in its animal fists

give 
it 
a 
name
like the people do with posh perfumes and aftershaves
midnight plum
or
boris and natasha

get to know its breath 
observe its habits
its evil play

and
then
watch
it
leave