(Manonique)

[madscenes]

manonique
[mah-non-eek]
adj. from the French
Manon-like, to be like Manon.




1A.
She is nothing but five letters in a book, yet she makes such a grand persona.
Heavy make-up weighs down her coquettishness, her flight is only one long run to the fall.
Every new lover she takes is a comma in a multi-part sentence where the final full stop remains his.




1B.
Your names begin with the same sound, the same two letters, letter thirteen and the letter one.
None of your natural charms are as resistant as your body, easily forgotten, but at least not consumed.
You want the full stop to be your own, like you wanted him to remain yours, truly.




Impossibles.




2A.
She counts the stones that cut your feet, precious, semi-precious, sapphires and rubies and diamonds, gilded.
Intersection; where hands brush skin, beads of pearl spring forth, she sweats freshwater and you cry white agate.
The ground can't touch her, she soars above, alive and kicking, a laugh belonging to fevers and dreams.




2B.
Gems and stones grab you both by the throat, one of you dying, one already dead.
Intersection; her story bears repeating, but you can't bear to be the one repeating it.
When you show her out, she is carried off by strong, adoring arms where you wish she would crawl in the dust with you.




Valuables.




3A.
To the sound of a heartbeat, though not her own, her own ceases in time with her, ceasing to be even five letters in a book, she draws her last breath.
Dear [ insert name ], until death do us part.




3B.
No sounds remain, when your heart stops, only oblivion and a loneliness that arises from the finality of your unfulfillment, recorded in all those letters unsent.
With love, [ sign here please ].




Contrasts.