My fist crushed his angry eye A desperate mother begged for my sixteen year old assistance Her egg whites rolled back into her vomiting head The personalized presents I picked out still unused Clotting never came, I passed out dripping blood on the toilet She screams for help at night, though now it’s less often The ****** wore off and she found herself in an empty lot, **** recent You cried when your knees failed you on each stair, each day The irises never grew this year, dead roots It was a freak accident, no way we could have seen it coming He was mangy and homeless, but man was he resilient They took paid swings at each other’s hairless faces, we filmed it The bottle left my fingertips, I heard her yell in pain Money is easily removed from unprotected leather I probably said some things god wouldn’t forgive on a good day She tasted smoke on my lips, boy was she ****** I wonder if people can hear the evil **** that lives in my brain Like ugly sea serpents mulling about in an aquarium getting restless Little kids with sticky hands pressed against the glass Thankful for land legs and transparent barriers No one would swim with the sharks by choice Except an equally wicked leviathan I imagine they will roam in circles Until I die