The Death of a Zoopraxiscope

This is all so very tempting---

especially since I never thought I would be capable of such a massacre

and so effortlessly at that

It was in an arboretum blanketed with uncertainty that you fooled me once

and in a bedroom permeated with the Jackson 5 that you fooled me again

but I was never quite the fan of charms---

So I went out and scrunched my nose and made a list of all the things that were wrong with me

and they amounted to---

and I thought of all the beds you rolled around in

and the bales of hay that must have been deadending into each other---

somewhere

and we would go round and round like this---

like those Strangers on a Train

So all I could do from there---

was fall right into the silhouette---

moving my feet this way and that

until you thought

I had moved

right on