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Necropolis

from Symbiogenesis by Michael Bell

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The two of them, mother and daughter, tool their car through a grid of empty lots and sandy streets. Curbs and signposts map empty foundations. Desert light glares from rusted iron and concrete.

A gutted cinderblock hotel looms over the lake shore. Pale sky glows through empty window frames. Dirt and garbage overflow the swimming pool in the courtyard. Messy graffiti splashes its walls, and black water swirls in its flooded basement.

The rocky beach steams in the sun. Flies buzz above the empty eye sockets of desiccated carp heaped on crystallized salt. The lapping water reeks of rot.

The girl and her mother stand at the waterline, whispering observations. Their voices die in the air. They stop talking. Far across the water a motorboat pulls a skier, in silence.

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from Symbiogenesis, released August 17, 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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