Page 10 - Haruspex

Thirty Degrees of Scorpio
I. A period of invisible punishment in a visible cage.
II. A giant head made of the freshly ground corn
III. White men in a circle jerk endlessly enchanted by the phrase: “get over it”.
IV. Step-mothers in the ashes of all those who preceded them had known.
V. A power station consisting of a series of beehives.
VI. A moment's ennui, suspended by a !ickering klieg light.
VII. They, in the Crone stage, sleeping under an apple tree. In the grass a bright red mahogany rosary.
VIII. A mouse, living in a paper bag with a sewn shut door, when another mouse sneaks into its small cage.
The mouse remains in this dismal existence because it $nds nothing but a toothless corpse.
IX. A spring ring from a collection jar, or an old pen, or a clump of dyed hair, or a handkerchief, or a towel,
or a handful of yellow paint, or a fob watch, or a fake gun from the middle of the bottom shelf of your
dad's closet.
X. An epileptic $sherwoman dragging a 55-pound !ounder back and forth.
XI. A collection of abandoned Atari game machines, lying on a table under a growling bookcase.
XII. A sleeping clown on a lawn chair, moves a black cane in the dirt, smiling and looking rather content. XIII. Two pre-teens, leaning on a wall, one looking expectantly at the entrance of a convenience store. XIV. A laptop with pornography browser tabs open next to those containing current world events.
XV. A small mirror inside a box, stuck into the wall of a broken tower.
XVI. An umbrella suspended from a ceiling light in the background of a sex scene.
XVII. Two crying babies being shushed while their parents hover over a pot of boiling water.
XVIII. A shirtless person with a large collection of squeaky vacuum cleaners huffs nitrous oxide from a
whipped cream canister.
XIX. A stack of rose petals, hung on a rope near a table lamp in the bedchamber of a suite at a budget motel. XX. Subway passengers cooperatively washing away swastika symbols under a full moon in Cancer.
XXI. A military mask (currently taken off) with the face of a deceased colleague inside it.
XXII. Vampire cop, their claws stained with saliva.
XXIII. Ladders fashioned out of broken fragments of movie projectors are lifted by the previous denizens of a
now gentri$ed community.
XXIV. A destroyed piece of the Statue of Liberty being held by a pair of twins wearing red and blue.
XXV. Wounded people in dressing gowns hang on to each other while a crowds gathers.
XXVI. A hallway where your uncle $gures out what you really are through hieroglyphics you are too afraid to
read. The uncle never speaks again.
XXVII. An individual and their android assistant, both of whom are wet behind the ears and (presumably)
somewhat disturbed.
XXVIII. A mother in maternity clothes, still, wishing she was still.
XXIX. The two of us trying to pretend that nothing has happened.
XXX. Aging, half-naked sex worker, washes off cum with leaves that hold the secrets of the river Styx as birds
watch in every window.