House of Poisons

We were waiting for a cloud

Of turnaround

I’m in the back of a shop

With no one around

And so I am, killing blind

Those nights of days feel sublime

In this shop full of bottles

I’m dropping coins, mostly pennies

All alone, I walk the aisles

Small glass vials, rows aplenty

Speaking quiet to the ground only

Because it makes me feel less lonely

Small glass vials

Solid white labels

On shelves and in drawers

In tidy stacks on tables

They look so fresh

But feel so old

I see the demons sitting pretty

On the bottoms of the bowls

They seem not to notice

Furrowed down and looking shrewd

Killing faith, granting wishes

For the hopeless and the lewd