Prose

~drifting down that rat hole~
~he don’t want to go there alone~
~so he invents superman~
~trades women sex for drugs~
~gets the boys that way too~
~the world is his his stage is his world~
~everybody wants to see it~
~make him run~
~run away~
~die rockstar die~
 
~angels run away~
 
Is it only our lives slipping away or some inconceivable broken covenant made with gods come to punish us for lies told. We struggle with our dragons, harm those nearest our hearts and homes.  Is any future worth the destruction of moment, a process whereby seeking we throw it away.
 
Last night he slept with her, his woman, experienced a connection of spaces, armor set aside, bartered for skin on skin, become one complete, whole again.  As he drove away, his mind retreated to a forest, to a canyon, where he heard her voice first and stared into the reflection of lightning in her eyes.
 
Reality is his gallows of hope, a death sentence to all inhabitants of dreams.  He said life was supposed to be fun, the puppet-master, thief of souls whose strings labeled, “dainty delights” were tripwires opening drop-doors to the dungeons of fun seekers’ hearts.
 
When he discovered she no longer cared, he offered himself to stand instead of the murderer, stood resolute before the firing squad, life, metal on metal, click, ready, aim.  He smiled beneath the blindfold.  Bullets cannot break a broken heart.  God damn all governors and their pardons.
 
No prayers aloud in this room, always, forever, the whispered lies born desperate, denied asylum.  He left his child’s eyes underneath the bed baptized in splashes of mother’s blood.  Each night alone is a fresh haunting, a crippled man in a crooked room.
 
The boy is afraid of chickens and spiders in the outhouse hole.  Voices laughing into his blind eye face
became the home of the impossible dream where the woman would come to hold him tight against her breast, keep him safe from himself.  Angels run away, angels run away.
 
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