Mid-October ’97,
I was high on mescaline,
half-naked in the attic,
drilling script into your wrist:
“Made through my will,
through to the end.”
New Years Day, ’99,
he’s pounding on the door again,
and for a moment I thought I saw you levitate,
but he just had you by the neck.
I feel my spit coat the barrel,
someone’s fist in my jacket,
and I taste copper as I black out.
June 2001,
half a body in the backyard,
rabbit’s foot on your necklace
as the cops park across the street.
We steal ourselves under the eave
and we escape.
The heat dragged the scent from the soil,
and within days there was a call,
but it was the third one that made them listen.
New flowers marked the place to dig.
Look down at your arm
and repeat it back to me:
“Made through my will,
through to the end.”
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