chevelure

There's this dead thing growing on my head
It is large
I keep growing it just to show how dead it is
growing the dead thing
lots and lots of it
deader at the end than
at the top
decomposing down its length

I change its colour to make it feel
living
I arrange its dead limbs as I please
sometimes
on special occasions --
but mostly, on a
day to day
basis,
I let them flop everywhere
all dead-like.

When I dance
I thrash it around so it looks like it's moving
but it's not really moving
because it's dead
I'm just trying to shake some life into it.