coming soon to a bargain rack near you

finally finished my second novel

sent it off to my publisher

wrote all night

9 hours straight

 

it’s about a man who escapes a mental ward

makes it to the west coast

amid the january sky

north of seattle

falls asleep on the beach

and freezes to death on his first night of freedom

 

yup

you got it

there is no point

 

now it is the next night

no words to wrestle or write

i’m just walking in l. a.

 

a car passes blaring bikini kill

i’ve drank so much i feel ill

and it’s fucking raining

 

i stop in a hardware store

and buy a can of black spray paint

 

walk till i see a mall

closed

but standing 50 feet tall

and i spray the entryway

with the words,

 

“unlike your church

we clothe and feed the masses”

 

flip off the camera

and walk away

 

stop at a taco stand

toss out the spray can

and eat next to the dumpster

 

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