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a certain elegance
the old piano
your delicate fingers
playing something
from a few centuries
ago
there is a certain elegance
with how you glide through
every situation in life
this love between us dead
for so many years now
yet you find the grace
to let me believe
my demons are wrong
each night i kiss you
before falling asleep
like an angel escaping
trouble
i always think one day
you’ll realize this isn’t
the life you wanted
i suppose i should be
grateful for the days
we have together
time keeps slipping
out of my fingers
no beautiful woman
is going to be spending
the rest of her life with
someone like you
these fairytales never
end well
dead bodies floating in the ocean
it’s the smell of death
on a lost highway
vacant eyes telling
a story of dead bodies
floating in the ocean
during the war
forced laughter under
a naked moon
the bourbon flows like
water in these parts
she had six heads and
a lust for your death
you were drunk enough
to call her bluff
she now wants child
support
you ever wonder why
your father never loved
you
why your grandmother
died and he made you
tell his wife, your mother,
that her mother was dead
anger is fruitless
we’re simply waiting
to die here
just like everyone else
carry on
it will be weeks before
the symptoms arise
the last day of school
remember high school
sweethearts kissing
under the stairs in the
east building on the
last day of school
funny
all these years later
you still love that
woman
there’s a good
possibility she
doesn’t even
remember you
exist
such is life
some people can
make friends as
easy as cracking
a joke or a smile
some are just meant
to be lonely with
their memories of
what used to be
none of us come out
ahead in the end
it’s a sweet miserable
death for us all
J.J. Campbell (1976 – ?) is stuck in the suburbs, plotting his escape. He’s been widely published over the years, most recently at Synchronized Chaos, Horror Sleaze Trash, Cajun Mutt Press, The Beatnik Cowboy, and Jellyfish Whispers. You can find him most days on his mildly entertaining blog, Evil Delights.