No good for tomorrows, where coffee's been cold, tastes like battery acid, kicks nervous systems up into highest gear--range = infinite.
then kills.
It's no good.
No good for saturday afternoons, lonely as clear blue sky on open highway hurtling through ferocious air.
No good.
Definitely not a monday morning thought:
A day for hangovers, tightly-capped lips, ****-smelling ****, and linoleum stained as an old man's scalp.
It's no good for that time.
It's good for moments: the window open, the tune of hurled air humbling your eardrums. Music loud, but not unbearable. someone laughing in the back, kicking up their feet on the headrest and taking the last sip of Wild Turkey.
Asleep in a securely blue bar; laying your head on the wood paneling; feeling the hum-drum earthworm of puke on your tongue: Tasting guacamole and seared steak.
When the cop hurls around, cuts the lights, and hops out the squad like a monster with a conscience.
You know you're drunk, but fear doesn't hit you until everyone involved has peeled off.
Fear lingers, like shaking a dead man's hand, but there are other things that wash well.
you and her.
It's good for moments perplexing, it calms.
It's good for moments of fear, it throttles you into sanity.