The music hanging in the air
The most trouble coming
From hoping you can find your car
In the parking lot
Large as the moon
Or if the sweating, middle aged power adolescent
Will expand his vocabulary beyond
Fuck
Wondering if this is what a good time
Looks like
The sound of something breaking
Is the sound of someone breaking
A cracking sound
Later on, you hear it
Echoing from the ending
Because to call it
Imagine sticking your finger
In a fifteen year old girls back
To stop the bleeding
Or picking up pieces of skull,
Tacky against your fingers
A universe of ideas so much
Pulp and fragment
Or telling someone it’s going to be
Okay and wanting to believe it
More than anything
In an emergency room
Packed together
A chorus singing
Their grief
Shock
The music hanging in the air
The most trouble coming
From hoping you can find your car
In the parking lot
Large as the moon
1 reply on “Large As The Moon”
This whole, dangerous scene plays out in so few words yet still conveys the right amount of tension, but what is going on after ‘Because to call it…”? Am I missing some words? I can’t get it to flow easily on to …”Imagine sticking your finger…”
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