Bedbugs LII

Bedbugs LII

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It's warmer in the basement than I thought it'd be.
At first, nothing, on a cold day in March I'm searching
for meaning in a ruin. Suddenly the scratchy song kicks
in. Memories as she throws sticks at me, worker drones filing
in, empty classrooms that were full is the language of spies
even though it's quiet, my ears hurt! Only way
out of this is when I move forward, realizing
the record repeating is a manifestation of my bad habits.
Automaticity. Stuck in an endless pattern, down in
a forgotten basement. Euphoric, I am scared..the
problem is too deep under bridges, the problem
is the solution.

A wind picks up in a room that has no windows.
Am I being followed? Am I the shadow while
the real me didn't arrive yet? Emotion pours forth as
I make my way in near-dark to a room that has
faded paint, green ribbons on the floor
with another color mixed in THAT DOES NOT EXIST.
The song is habits, neuroses, fears,
drones and worker tendencies, she wanted to be
in the mountains while I stayed downstairs..

The deepest breath is taken. Spirits are coming for me.
I reach into the ether where the sound originates
and imagine pulling a rusted needle
off a living phonograph.

The cycle is broken. No longer downstairs,
I am home. I am new. I can decide my fate.
What I forgot to say was...

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Bedbugs has run once a week for 52 weeks, beginning

October 11, 2007. I expect cycle two to climax in its

100th week. After that, the future is unknown.

thank you,

Adam Barnick




END CYCLE ONE

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intended or inferred.