In the Blue Casino

by Christian Wessels

Where the windowless rooms
…Manufacture stimulations

A body associates with pleasure
…Where more modifies neither object

Nor concept but a life with
…Other measurements like three dreams

And blue making three blue dreams
…Where the temperature decreases

A half-mark at every event
…Described as a win or loss

Where an old man at the poker table
…Vows to posthumously donate

His life insurance to clean industries
…Where the wheel moves too fast

Too fast too fast over
…The predestined number where faith

Becomes a functional impossibility
…Because here you’re no kind of person

Anymore though you wonder
…Was that true before where you enter

And exit the washroom there are rules
…First you need to leave the blue casino

To believe it was real second
…You can never be clean again

Third you must wash your hands
…With soap and water

Published on August 21, 2024