amaze me machine. | home
offsetting the umbrellas.
walking into your house,
I could still feel the tension
between you and felix.
the divorce papers were on the table
signed much too late
the abuse much deeper than skin
you put your foot down on a Wednesday
too late
but you know that.
I walked in circles around your house
in search for you
I realized every element of felix gone
no furniture clothes movies
everything gone
except for the magnet on the refrigerator
`Felix's premium umbrellas' it read
you must have missed it
I walked outside, calling your name
only to find you an hour later standing
at the ledge of a free fall
wearing nothing but a sheet
holding a bag of umbrellas
your hair
like ropes
flapping in the wind.
Dropping each umbrella to plummet to it's death
I asked what you were doing
"killing felix."
Feeling the closure, I said nothing else
only waited until you had finished dropping
each umbrella
as if each one was a piece of felix
collapsing to it's death
each sin
each cut
erased.
Murdered
and erased.
And finished.
As you tossed the final umbrella
yellow
we walked silently back to your home
both of us smiling
as we felt the raindrops
hit our face.