fight or flight

 

nettle, thistle, wild rose

keep by your side

the passage narrows

undrinkable water

bewitched pair of shoes

soles that wear out fast

 

you run

a closet on your back

do you want the red pill

or the blue one, they ask

 

stifling nocturnal anatomy

errorist scarecrows

terrorist scapegoats

obscure marks on

your wrists and ribs

 

a copper coin

underneath the tongue

red protection

against black magic

 

civilisation’s smoked meat

twirls in the gut

 

fluid catalytic cracking

steam cracking

catalytic reforming

 

stretching of the spine

adrenaline

 

desires and demands

asterisks drowned

in petrochemicals