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My Companion

from Utburd by Michael Bell

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My companion lives with me in the dark. It’s a rustling behind the door, and then a shadow, moving, in the corner at the ceiling. I stay still, pretending its not there, but it knows I’m lying, and at the corner of my eye its teeth gleam in a smile broadening beneath laughing eyes.

My companion is hungry, but bites small, rolling pieces of me onto its tongue, holding them between its teeth, showing me, and then slowly swallowing. Always close, it watches me, studies me, choosing which part of me it will taste next. It does not hurry. I am not going anywhere, and there is no morning here. My companion whispers to me, gentle and close, that it will stay with me until the end.

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from Utburd, released October 29, 2023

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Michael Bell Bellingham, Washington

A Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish, too.

Some of this is music for video games. The rest is a fairly raw document of my ongoing attempt to find something new among the blinking lights in my studio at home.

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