Murder On the Highway

a lone car on a highway at 5am
its headlight beams knife the dark
no exit wounds
just a flash of steely light pushing 
deeper and deeper into the tarred body

the night bleeds slow
pales from the loss of black blood
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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