The fortress on the cliff that in the mist
could be an old money or military
lair you point out is Fulsom
which at first I hear as fulsome
with an e and not the end on m.
“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude
except as a punishment for crime”
“Change things by changing their names?”
It seems telling of imperial history
that fulsome very long ago meant aid
and in modifying form, first meant
plentiful then came via the sense “causing
nausea” to mean excessive flattery
in a confusion of abundance and excess.
How did we get to the Golden Edge of
Everything and miss the stairs? Google maps
directs you around the Tenderloin not through
and instead by a guy in a suit, gun cocked
in front of Hermes. At the gates of a different
hell the anemones have teeth and the succulents
and clocks grow eyes to see everything
you couldn’t do and didn’t know before.
In another version you get a branded cuff
no eye contact and a courtesy card for what
you’re not sure. In another it’s the thought
hell is other people. In the one you can’t control
however, someone’s there to help you
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