There is ALWAYS

...a CLOCK!

Ticking. Ticking.

running somewhere…

from something.

Time defies us

Denies us

Defines us

Distorts us

and

Defeats us

Rode side rbr

You’re about as useful

as a roadside rubber

Tossed out the window

By a five minute lover

 tossed out the window 

of a fifty four Ford

and making you

 as fruitful

as your 

drive-by brother

normally I swear

I’d pay no bother

but this fellow here

claims he’s my father

Don’t mind him. He gets this way. He rants and babbles.

Off sulking again….

moody, private, victimized, resentful…revengeful.

The only pain he is bound to inflict is on himself or those in close proximity. It need not be that way, but it is.

Lucy knew it the minute she banged him.

He was either going to kill her or laugh.

Or both.

But when he relinquished

And released,

Amidst the bellow and the heave

his grip now freed 

she laughed with the Joy

in the pure relief of breathing.

A gasp,

from drowning,

her reprieving.

Lying with the Beast

Bound within his sheets,

Still alive, still complete.

She had no choice.

V