Cold rain in June and the baby sick.
Nails chewed down to stale blood.
to fresh pain
Noon,
grey light through every window,
and then six thirty, seven thirty,
the house filled with the smell of age,
the smell of softly rotting wood,
and when the roof begins to leak there's
nothing left to do but run.
picture it
A stretch of road up in the hills just
outside of town, and you were both fifteen,
just standing there holding each other,
making out, the smell of her hairspray,
the taste of her gum, feel of her
breasts with your hands up
underneath her jacket.
October, grey, and what you didn't
know is that you'd be 37 someday, and
divorced from a woman you hadn't
even met yet.
What you didn't know is
how many jobs you'd lose.
How many friends would die of
cancer, would die in car crashes, would
just disappear.
Would wake up to
an overdue mortgage, a mother with
Alzheimer's, a leaking room and
just run.
Just drown in the
pure fucking beauty of escape.
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