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C. (Free verse) by skaskowski
Who ran the sound for yesterday?
A cataclysmic flash of bells and horns,
a semi crashing
at the bend near exit 206.
You tweaked the squeals to match the pitch
of 60 tons of cold steel twisting.
I remember every
gravel shrapnel crack and snap,
and every single head it smashed in.
Yet who am I but
a raving hypocrite?
I cry,
"don't do that! Don't do it, dont do it."
You still stuck your head
deep into a scorpion's nest.
Well, let this sting remind you
that I'm beside you,
even in death.
Right, who am I
but a rampart of regrets?
Why cry,
"don't do it!"
When I'd be the first one
to do it?
I watched your sideview-mirror split
into a thousand glassy pieces,
like the sparkly spray from
sneezing in the sunlight.
All along I wanted to believe you
when you said you found a
secret shortcut.
A spider-web like music staff
crawled across your safety glass.
Drops of blood made quarter notes
as they plummeted
from the overpass.
Bucket-seats now
milky pools
splashed in gasoline
with a scum of ash.
And I wanted to believe you,
yet I only say,
"Use a hubcap as a plate.
I told you so. Now go,
clean off your plate!
How much more glass can you eat?"
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