poetry by Lindsay Hargrave

(Kate Wilson) i saw a picture of an abandoned & decrepit chucky cheese animatronic in the desert, splintering at each seam, pooling springs & the lustrous strands of synthetic fiber; sand embedded in the machinery, gears sputtering and thrashing, music on repeat, smelling like piss and pizza and motor oil, faded and cracking, cracking, cracking, unraveling into a metal armature and the fading memories of a dancing mouse & the hazy blink of neglected neon memories and thought