Urd (self A)
is living in a universe
serving as the main recipe
for reminiscence,
and in this land,
she has no perception
and therefore is as alive
as a fence post.
Verdandi (self B)
likes to surf the second hand
and slip and plunge down
past the sensor-wand that zaps
her into Urd's body
while resuming down
into the googles
of other Urd corpses.
All this,
just so that Verdandi
could regenerate
like one of those
pull-and-wait-for-your-number-
to-be-called ticket dispensers
that the moon's gravity
likes to pull so much,
causing that stream
of ticket-to-ticket
broken sound barriers.
The only way Verdandi
is connected to Urd
is by her conformity
to Urd's once-existent
characteristics,
as if Verdandi was conforming
to a deceased historical figure.