"forlorn cosmetics" - a poem by Bayed
LITERATURE·February 24, 2024
An image merging Google map views of the Malkha Graveyard and Père Lachaise Cemetery, with a superimposed photograph of the Makhdoom Sahib shrine from 1920.
a poem
forlorn cosmetics of turbulence are
are objects associated with identity.
come with me to Tyrant-Market where
tyrannies are sold, and with every sale
a foetus dies cold.
a bold, bold ode to a persuasive soul.
objects and identity—a physical coalition of the hostile.
but it ought to be metaphysical.
those who sold the world will have a hard time.
after all, it's a coalition of the metaphysical.
identities are spiritual and its objects do not exist.
no/less forlorn cosmetics. they're ingrained.
in the mind.
a foetus dies, nonetheless. the hostile remain hostile.
Tyrant-Market will be empty.
a cold, cold ode to a persuasive soul.