Everything and I

Everything and I

 

Snapshot impact!

 

Punch lands,

Life ends,

Day begins.

 

A stick figure geek

With an obvious hangover

Crawls the scummy sidewalk

Looking for his wounded glasses.

He makes my head throb

Like a sunlight sledgehammer.

 

A beauty queen / soccer mom

Orders unruly overdressed twerps

To stop throwing M&Ms at one another

At a forever stoplight.

I want a bite;

A green one.

 

I’m late for a collision with a self-

Important prick whose shoes squeak

As he briskly walks toward his plain and un-

grieved grave.

Makes me cry to understand

That I’ll never understand

Him.

 

I am born and I die

Over and over

With everyone;

All day; everyday;

 

A rogue cell in a volatile organism

Always on the brink of explosion

And implosion.

 

I’m just like everything else here:

Temporary,

Yet,

Immortal.

 

I am running in every direction

At once.

 

I’ll never return.

Author's Note

still a work in progress......
......not sure of it yet....
ideas?

Reviews

[Kerry O'Connor]

The three character sketches are inspired...you have such a satirical eye for detail and know how to twist it all to metaphor with a turn of the wrist.

Great build up to the conclusion too:

I’m just like everything else here:
Temporary,
Yet,
Immortal.