Melanie Departed

MELANIE DEPARTED Melanie departed. His habits cured her of moon-shine and bambi-eyes. The huge door slammed so tight and her deep footprints in the mud that night made it intelligible to even him that she never would return. This crystal clear taunt was haunting. A spectral of fear hung like a teardrop chandelier, ready to loose a torrent of vacuous time….tick tick tick tHe raFTers dark and eerIE CrEak the cyclone in his head wh-O-rls and the O-cean of his stomach drops a ghost’s in flight its chAIns they claNG against the treMblinG Ceiling portenTIOUS stars where light shouLd shiNe a shadow stuns, IT PeeKS at him, smiling so vaingl-O-riously he faints as he revives he opens up his eyes a green sheet with holes for eyes, speaks “b..o..o” he loses his booze runs from that O-pen space the chains they r U m B l e the apparition gives it straight, “your d...e...a...d fool” 8/5/2019