The Somnambule's Crime

 

 

 

 

Exhausted Feathers

 

 

 

 

 The festival fathers released the garland of cobras into the fake Russian snow being sprayed upon the shopping mall pavement. The  loudspeakers are recessed in a vast flesh-colored smoke drifting slightly southward from the celebrated TV cowboy’s head. We are walking toward a sociable flicker of exhausted feathers. And mother is bringing up the rear sopping it all up with a piece of cold toast like a flag.

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