Kindness my A*s

Here is a link to my YouTube channel where I read my poetry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k5NY8ZMx3I

Calico snakes crawl the
garden of our love.
You, in your gingham
dress and hair in braids,
bent over the radishes.

I, unshaven in my dirty
Johnny Cash t-shirt.
Earth all over my
face.
I fell into your
firey ring, that's for
damn sure.

As soon as my guard comes
down, you and that drunken
pirate moon, and that mad
smiling snake burn
me every time.

I'm leaving the garden and
heading back to those
wild midnight alleys where I
know what's coming.
Nursery rhymes are just
metered horror stories.
And spring is the biggest
liar of them all.

Author's Note

I have a brand new poetry reading on my you tube channel, where I read from my recently published books, Seedy Town Blues Collected Poems and It's Just a Hop, Skip, and Jump to the Madhouse, both available on Amazon.com

www.thomaswcase.com

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Such an interesting paradox...Knowing what's coming in a dark alley as opposed to?
I like the references to Johnny Cash and The Ring of Fire.
j.

[John the Baptist]

Sounds as though Miss Right in her gingham dress was not so right after all. Or maybe she was too right and the speaker couldn't handle it. The bad old days had little going for them, but at least he felt a sense of control there.