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Somewhere Between Nostalgia and Night Terrors

Ted Jackins

Sitting in your kitchen
with last crescendos of
TV Eye fading into thin air,
I was only sixteen-
a street walking cheetah
with a heart full of
chewed glass
with a limp in my step
and that tired old grin
glued to my lips
with smoke spilling out
of both corners,
a nightmare screaming
somewhere in my memory,
and overflowing into
my waking vision.
Hallucinatory film strips
eclipse the walls of
my periphery,
and now I know
that hindsight is far
more than 20/20
as the skyline explodes
before crashing downward
in distant shards of song
and misery,
collapsing with an
echoed thud
and catching a bystander
by total surprise.
He hits the pavement
hard and swallows
teeth and bile,
blood forming
stray pools on either
side of what was
once his face
but is now crushed
well beyond the
realm of recognition
somewhere beneath
the imposing mass
that was mere moments
ago one with the clouds,
and all I can manage
as some attempt
at acknowledgement
of this strange
trapeze act is to
utter a simple
“Humph!”
before sidestepping
the unexpected obstacle,
and not even once
looking back.

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