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***BIO*** Belinda Subraman’s website is www.belindasubraman.com She edits www.gypsymag.com featuring art, reviews, interviews, flash fiction, news in the literary arts and independent music scene and poetry.  Her own poetry is appearing in print journals, online magazines and podcasts around the world. Listen to BZOO Radio, 24 hour streaming poetry and music at www.Bzoo.org where Belinda is a contributing artist and show host for Gypsy Art show and Music of the Universe
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Dementia
by Belinda Subraman
fog…noise
  there are no words
only syllables, letters
moving colors in a fox of fog

names escape me and wish to be anchored
  I hand them out of a colored box
  to people in my room
  their puzzled look matches mine
   when I quiz them
   they float in a fog of noise and syllables
my arms and legs twitch and sprout plumbing
they mouth answers in search of questions
and my questions and never answered

I must get out of this and I rise
  I reach through the fog toward the noise
    and moving pictures
colors run and ignore me
   everything escapes yet I’m locked in a noisy fog
people change names and locations
    wear masks of youth and uniforms
  reach inside colorful boxes
     of moving pictures and surprise me
with needles, pills and tubes
  they are sewing me into bed
making me furniture in a fog
     confounding me with noise and syllables
       but I rise, sit on a cliff
           and a red noise screams
I hold to cold metal and know danger
  moving pictures scramble in a box of fog
masks of youth hold needles
  are sewing me into the bed
uniforms watch me

I am the moving picture
in a noisy box of color
the fog engulfs me
there are no words
            fog….noise
April 2006
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