Jason Bargueno

By Hundreds They Fall

 

full of empty bodies

 

by hundreds they fall

the open sky their playground

gravity their guide

 

no words does she mouth

as the above is made full

with empty bodies

 

thrill-junkie corpses

facing their fear with eyes closed

payments now taken

 

she looks around her

and finds that everyone else

still sleeps, eyes open

 

she points to the sky

and screams out the obvious

to the swipe of cards

 

loud whisper of brands

has now hijacked their language,

the logos their eyes

 

under a table

her hands swallow her ears,

her eyelids her eyes

 

above the bodies,

the pilot remarks to him,

"are you awake now?"

 

bodies meet bodies

to a soundtrack of screaming

bones crunch like candy

 

bodies meet bodies

the painful cry of alarms

coffee hits pavement

 

each of their foreheads

in ink from a sharpie pen

wears a question mark

 

vacant sky again

silence takes back the empty

the stores will console.