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Sunshine Down

Brian Looney

Have you ever felt the heat of a flame, like a coal between your legs, the threat perceived, so real your brain transmits a signal of pain, which causes you to shriek and slap the blushing area?

She stops to wonder why some days, some days her flesh(to him) is fuel ignited. Doctors maintain it has something to do with flying too close to the ____. Because(do I have to say it?) the baby isn’t altogether human. “Lifeless,” says the court. But the baby isn’t lifeless. I know because I gave it life(inanimate life, yes), and I woke the next day humming. And that was proof enough.

Q: God Complex?
A: Well sure, if it justifies your cynicism. On the seventh day, I rested.

Fact:
What I felt for her was lust, white-hot perhaps, but I know it wasn’t love. However much I loved to hurl myself into her flame, I only burned for a short-short period, and it was fierce and wild and frightening and blind, but oh so satiating. With dirty hands, I touched her places.

Q: There. You have it there in writing. The state rests its case. Let the jurors ruminate. We are confident of a just and expedient verdict.

Out where the arroyo cinches to form a canoe-shaped junction, and the highway crosses the river, lording over the waters like a monument to civilization, I sit on a wall of stone. Go fifty paces westerly, twenty paces southerly, twenty paces motherly, sixty paces easterly...four linebreaks northerly. You should arrive at an igneous formation, shaped like a crouching toad.

There.
I will spread your ashes there,
my extra-human babycake.
I will smile sunshine down.

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