Postmortem Conversation with Jeffrey Epstein
You are the first person I’ve seen
walk these gray streets in, how long?
Time runs at odd angles
here. I remain as always
a vault of secrets.
I guess that’s why you came.
These words swim under the water--
the fin emerges, a barely exposed
threat. I am surprised
that you would ask of me.
You prepare an excellent death
as a chef would a meal. The ingredients
present themselves. Anyone can twist
a prison sheet, but there must
be proper posture, breath control,
and the body
should be suspended at a precise
fifty-four-degree temperature.
The video cameras failed.
Well, the darkest acts
always defy observation.
I have no explanation
for what happened
after I died, or even when I died,
but I am positive that I killed myself.
Suicide has always been
an exercise in autonomy.
You are the first person I’ve seen
walk these gray streets in, how long?
Time runs at odd angles
here. I remain as always
a vault of secrets.
I guess that’s why you came.
These words swim under the water--
the fin emerges, a barely exposed
threat. I am surprised
that you would ask of me.
You prepare an excellent death
as a chef would a meal. The ingredients
present themselves. Anyone can twist
a prison sheet, but there must
be proper posture, breath control,
and the body
should be suspended at a precise
fifty-four-degree temperature.
The video cameras failed.
Well, the darkest acts
always defy observation.
I have no explanation
for what happened
after I died, or even when I died,
but I am positive that I killed myself.
Suicide has always been
an exercise in autonomy.
The secret of poetry is cruelty.--Jon Anderson