Chasing liquid courage running out of throttle,
I met Mr. Scornful at the bottom of the bottle.
He had malice and laughter in a knapsack.
In her tiny cold frail hands, cancer. Evelyn Pendergrass.
How she ended up with him beats me, maybe dementia.
The squirrel on the forest floor next to them made the four of us.
She was excited. She couldn’t stop chewing.
The journey was rough, not made for us. The future grew timid.
Along the tiny narrow path, 35 years later,
I found out my emotions and bad habits were sleeping together.
Even Mr. Gingerbread man and his crumbles running by, didn’t bother.
So I sent darkness home while dawn peeled off the horizon off of the Sun’s eyes. Good morning.
The little red riding hood was safe now and the witch in the sugar cottage said wow.