A Broken Couple's Demise
Jackson Lassiter
Appendix-painful, the acrimony
burst. He bent her brittle, ruined, paper
clip twisted by hands callous and phony.
Denial bet large, she dreamt of this caper
eclipsed – eventually she’d lose dour,
fling off fetid fury. But the wager
gnawed her growling guts. Good reason – sour
hearts can’t rely on happenstance. Ennui
irritated, indolence altered, their
joint jitterbugged to a junk melody.
Knowing didn’t make less knotted living.
Laziness lingered, yearning withered, they
mutated to misery. Misgivings
never got aired – some tight minds can’t
open. Orneriness stopped them, its stinking,
perilous swamp hid their perished p’s &
q’s – a quagmire, drowned. So the virulent
relationship broke, nosedived, crash landed –
shattered Space Shuttle with shards turbulent
tumbled across a cloudless turquoise sky.
Universe unraveled, unrepentant.
Vexation sired a mean vendetta. She
wanted wondrous change, wished he would arrange
X-rays, splint this fractured passion. But why?
Yellow’s his true color. She saw his mange,
zeroed in, shot once, he died at close range.
Appendix-painful, the acrimony
burst. He bent her brittle, ruined, paper
clip twisted by hands callous and phony.
Denial bet large, she dreamt of this caper
eclipsed – eventually she’d lose dour,
fling off fetid fury. But the wager
gnawed her growling guts. Good reason – sour
hearts can’t rely on happenstance. Ennui
irritated, indolence altered, their
joint jitterbugged to a junk melody.
Knowing didn’t make less knotted living.
Laziness lingered, yearning withered, they
mutated to misery. Misgivings
never got aired – some tight minds can’t
open. Orneriness stopped them, its stinking,
perilous swamp hid their perished p’s &
q’s – a quagmire, drowned. So the virulent
relationship broke, nosedived, crash landed –
shattered Space Shuttle with shards turbulent
tumbled across a cloudless turquoise sky.
Universe unraveled, unrepentant.
Vexation sired a mean vendetta. She
wanted wondrous change, wished he would arrange
X-rays, splint this fractured passion. But why?
Yellow’s his true color. She saw his mange,
zeroed in, shot once, he died at close range.