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Amanda has an Out Of Body Experience
The house was full of creaks
Eyes peeped at her through knots in wood
and even when she tiptoed quietly as she could
her back close to the wall
Amanda felt that she was being observed
she noticed bars embedded in the ceiling
and tried to hide the things she felt inside
Almost as if she was a specimen laid out on a slide
then suddenly she understood, floated through the wood
to where, looking down, she turned the beveled knobs
From left to right until the body she had left
came into view and all at once she knew (almost, perhaps)
that this whole scene was just a temporary illusion
The source of her confusion was only some bad dream
Or something indigestible she’d eaten the night before
as lying spread out on the floor, the ceiling opened wide
She saw the tweezers, smelt the pungent
coating of formaldehyde
© Johnmichael Simon
2009
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