Demons, graveyards and razor-sharp steel i.e. the lighter side of life.

Do you like scary movies?  Not me, seen too many shadow creatures pop up out the gloom.  Some like fu^king on cool marble slabs, I got too many buried friends.  Always carry a blade, stuck one man and sliced another, but it ain’t any solution.  Not under a full moon, not on moonless nights and not when the dog pack is howling.

Now I lay me down to sleep

Ten years old, woke up blind;
only lasted 30 days, no big deal.
At nineteen, woke up in a cell.
Iron bars didn’t scare me, not that first time.
Woke up broke, woke up hungry
and woke up drunk too many times
on dirty sheets, near filthy toilets,
and once –
in a swamp
naked, bloody and all alone.

Woke up on fire.  Twice.
One lesson was don’t smoke in bed.
The other?
Don’t fall asleep.
 

akaKeisha©August 24, 2010