It's Still Life

Under a Bare Grey Block

There was always talk of her
slipping chains and those asylum gates.
She wandered about like a roadmap, and
always in a ranting chant. After a while,
the rumours flowed. Someone said that she
walked on water, but mostly they said
it was a bit of a show. People came
in masses when she dived off the waterfall.
She died of course, which stupored us
in a trance-ish-surprise. If she could
walk on water, (like the newspaper claimed)
then why couldn’t she dive off a waterfall,
and just fly or something. Like Jesus did.
He walked on water. That magician guy
walked on water, too, whatever his name
was. Anyway… the roadshow left town
after that incident, and the city buried
that woman under a bare grey block
of granite. No one knew her name.

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