FEVER TRIP
-To Günter (Who was a Doggie)
My spinning brain matter aches,
As my eyes follow the
Green, blue and pink, dancing wildly,
From electric candles against white walls.
I know now it was you, Mr. Mosquito,
Who put this evil on me.
Wet and afraid of the next
Degree rising higher, warmer.
The lids of my eyes fall,
Landing in a familiar, confusion
Where electric lights shine brighter,
And the comfort of home has changed.
On that very bed, where my eyes
Clasp hard and the fear took me, I feel the
Slimy claws, fishing and feeling, below.
The slick slime finds my firm back
Ripping through its bedded ceiling
And my last defender.
“O please, O please, aren’t you home
From breakfast to save me, yet?” Cries made,
And only matched by the breaking of
Fingernails on hard wood flooring. Then I
Felt the slime for the first time.
Wrapping its suction cupped fingers on my feet.
Deep to the dark the slime claw pulled,
As I run out of flooring to hopelessly clutch.
But then I hear the hope of bouncing bells,
Like the one’s on my Jessie’s neck, which
She kept, until worms ate her, too. I know
How you felt, now! But, like me, all Jessie
Did was watch.
And let the worm break bone and eat flesh.
“Go in peace, brother.”
Lids crack, letting in the faintest light, to my eye.
Not the green, blue and pink, of before, but
White light, like white heat on my face.
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