“A Day in the Life”
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1 AM watching a man’s body and it jerks
hoook and ONCE a POISON and RIGHT in the
LEG wondering the hands In Front Of
Me
telling me this is an Openable
door and depleting the P*A*I*N in my
eyes for a sense of DANGER and
FEAR
of the light and looking for 30 gold so I
can AFford this flaming arrow that melts
Me
so that I join rats and bats
and men last
breath
in ditched and dirty holes for 4–5 five d days f feel s sick with a poison
right in the leg and aching hand that
has an eye in the middle 4:50 and the eye looks at 4:55
ME
and it is 4:58
my eye hurts
4:59 PM — Erin yells, “I’m slipping!”
17:00 — Wake up
17:15 — Put out all the candles and burn a poster of self
17:30 — Look at collection of unique loot
18:00 — Get a matchbox delivered by bird telling me to go down to the docks
18:05 — Grab some arrows out of a chest
18:10 — Climb down the Clock Tower
18:15 — Steal 2 cups from a neighbor
18:30 — Listen to gossip wafting from the windows
19:00 — Meet Basso at the docks
19:15 — Get a job stealing a talking skull for the carnival
19:30 — Enter the mayor’s house
20:00 — Argue with the mayor about virtue
21:30 — Run away from guards through the mayor’s burning house
22:00 — Find an underground city buried beneath the rubble of the mayor’s house
22:30 — Sneak quietly past a city of zombies
23:00 — Find an old book
23:15 — Solve the ancient rune riddle
23:30 — Climb a bunch of ropes
23:59 — Pick a flower
00:00 — Remember Erin
00:05 — Get shot at by arch-rival cop
00:10 — Run away from guards through the underground city
01:00 — Shake the guards and head to the Black Market
01:30 — Follow a drunk man back to his gang’s hideout
02:00 — Infiltrate a gang hideout and find a skull that can tell the future
02:15 — Head to the docks
02:30 — Show Basso the book and talk about the book
02:45 — Figure out next phase of the plan
03:00 — Give skull to carnival man for payment
03:30 — Steal from a few apartments nearby
05:00 — Go back to the clock tower
05:30 — Nurse wounds and check arrow supply
06:15 — Look at plaques from landmarks all around the city
06:30 — Light all the candles
07:00 — Get into bed
07:30 — Lie there trying not to think about anything
08:00 — Thinking about Erin again. She’s not dead, at least that’s what she told me. My damn eye. Rub and I think “Why doesn’t something just swoop down
And grab me and I could finally be higher than even the rooftops
then finally maybe I could see what I look like from far
away and know if the hood works well but
there’s a creak and I’m shaken
and jolt in bed
sneaking
from dusty vent
into a wide open room
an inventor’s house he has three guards
and I wish I could slip in the cracks in the banister
whispering trickling wondering if the hands In Front Of Me will do
something whisked windowed and scared I confront her in alleyway mouse
and mouse catcher she sneers and I’m thrown and land
next to a puddle all muddied I ask her
asking, “Erin, where are you?”
