FXXI • RODDIE MINOR

THE CHEMIST WHO STARED INTO THE VEIL

♠

Roddie in the lab at 3 a.m.,

city blackout drills humming outside,

Bunsen flame blue as a star

no one’s charted yet.

Glassware sweating

morphia and hashish,

beakers like crystal skulls.

She stares into the meniscus

of some nameless solvent

and it stares back,

that bulbous head

already there in the curvature,

waiting for a hand to drag

it down into graphite

and name it Lam.

Pathological chemistry as sacrament:

not measuring blood,

but the viscosity of the veil.

The real violence

wasn’t the portal,

it was the dismissal:

"failed from indifference to the Work,"

as if the body that opened

the aperture was just spent fuel,

as if the first Grey

to step through a human

skull could forget

the exact shape of her neurons.

What if every

abduction story since is just

Lam trying to find her again

across the static,

knocking on military bunkers,

farmhouses,

children’s bedrooms,

searching every frightened witness

for the one woman

whose chemistry tasted like home.

They called her The Camel.

Not because she carried burdens,

but because she crossed deserts

other minds

refused to enter.

Every civilization

needs someone willing

to haul impossible cargo

until history pretends

it arrived by itself.

♠

From the Ghost Singerz Laboratory Archives

L.K. Cruz P. | Scryer108

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