15,000 fragments
from 530 scrolls
found in a cave
built into a hillside
the Dead Sea swishes
quietly peers up
at the gaping cave mouth
she walks into my room
in the psych hospital
lays a book on my bedside
says, "I thought you might
get something out of this."
I pick up the book
read one sentence only
"life on Earth
is a battle between the Sons of Light
and the Sons of Darkness"
blood drains from my face,
I imagine
the days pass
like kidney stones
in this tenement
of the accursed
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