[Teacher:]

Death by a visitation from God

Death by a visitation from God



[Student:]

I am shadow



[Teacher:]

Things material and spiritual



[Student:]

Maternal



[Teacher:]

can be heavy



[Student:]

Suffocating



[Teacher:]

There are seven iron lamps

which illumine our senses



[Student:]

Seven knives



[Teacher:]

Seven iron lamps to illumine our senses

and seven bells to celebrate the resurrection



[Student:]

Two marble balls in a sack

one long and slender candle

one mouth

two reckonings

Consternation and treachery



[Teacher:]

Are you listening

Are you listening to me

Are you paying attention to me



[Student:]

I am shadow



[Teacher:]

Seven iron lamps

seven oboes

two small balls

and one tiny candle



[Student:]

Tiny candle



[Teacher:]

One pathetic flame

embers dying



[Student:]

Dying



[Teacher:]

Five creatures from the monolith

seven whispers from the catacombs

five and seven numbing mumbling speeches

Are you listening



[Student:]

I am drawn to do what I should not



[Teacher:]

Guilty, guilty, guilty guilty

no, no, never never no

seven mornings

thirteen moons

five wolves

one silk spread morning

seven bells for seven senses

each one lusting lusting



[Student:]

Guiltily



[Teacher:]

Two milk fed glands ripe and red tipped

Are you listening my little mouse

Each sense ripped from its bodice

each gland primed to its overflow

Do you hear me my little mouse man

Do you hear me little cock

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