not much difference looking on
someone sleeping and someone
lying there dead in the box
with their arms folded stiff a certain way
hands crossed over the chest and dressed
formally for the
family’s last view
but what is this,
a breath coming,
a rising, falling chest?
what is going on
within that coma?
a dream?
eyes fluttering each
frame
the body can lay
so incredibly still
a
melancholy stare
into space
stillness may not
get you on TV
but who said
TV was
all that beautiful?
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