DANIEL Cartwright-Chaouki

Chasm

the distance between the fly over and 
the high rise flats the silence between spotify 
tracks in the car the great yawning yawn 
the mercury in your molars 

scattered everywhere grains of rice 
or chicken feed or memory loss the cavity 
beneath the whale bone of your chest 
the organs pulled through 

the pinholes pierced in your skin the space 
between us is ruined ash blows about like 
fragments of old black and white films 
the homeless rattle teeth in a cup 

smiling adverts peel from the boarded up 
facade where our agency used to be who 
did this to us? who stole our sleep 
and took it so far away?