Who Owns the Baby

from Open to Suggestion by SMEs-21

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Roaring with a million voices.
It roars with the peristaltic surge of scooters
like sparrows swimming like fish in a flock.
At peak times the deep belly growl Is the environment. It is the thing!

It is impossible to digest, and easy to feel consumed when traveling with a more timid disposition.
Because it eats, to the background speakers of midnight street-side eateries play gamelan and grindcore.
It nibbles at your skin with the sawing tickle of the resident mosquito.
Pray the demon Dengue is not near by.
Anoint yourself with the ointment of protection of Saint DEET.

It is haunted. He says he can only sleep after the half four morning prayer as that’s when the ghosts in the night settle.
He has two rooms at home. In one, the light has been on since the earth tore 13 years ago, never turned off, never changed, illuminated,
it is a lit messenger, as a bulb possessed,
He doesn’t go into that room any more.
It is inhabited by ghosts.
He could do something about it but seems content to let them be.
The bigger concern is the lingering spirit of the baby found dead on the river out the back of his house the day before.
Spirits dwell in the curve of the river, attention must be paid for seven days.
Who owns the baby? Who will pay reverence?
That is a worry

Overhead it is febrile. It is dry, unlike its’ humid siblings to the north.

Sweeting, Im aware that it is indifferent to me, it is impossible to reciprocate that sentiment.

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from Open to Suggestion, released August 29, 2021

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