4:48 In The Morning
R.I.P
Sarah Kane
It arrives
like a yellow taxi
swerving into a parking lot with
warped flickers in the
windshield.
An insect crawling
mindlessly up a concrete wall with
five legs and the sixth
dragging broken behind it.
The small stone trapped
in between the tread on the
worn soles of sneakers
that are too tight.
The clerk behind the
counter of the liquor store
with the eyes like
broken street lamps and a smile like a street fight.
The doctor in a
Christmas sweater with
a handful of pills but
a mouth with no answers.
An empty coat on a
hanger hung in a darkened window in
the apartment building
across the empty street.
A broken umbrella, it
still seeps in, soaks and
dampens these fragile
fabrics at 4:48 in the morning.
Stephen J. Golds was born in London, U.K, but has lived in Japan for most of his adult life. He enjoys spending time with his daughters, reading books, traveling, boxing and listening to old Soul LPs. Glamour Girl Gone his debut novel will be released by Close to The Bone Press January 29th, 2021.
Stephen J. Golds was born in London, U.K, but has lived in Japan for most of his adult life. He enjoys spending time with his daughters, reading books, traveling, boxing and listening to old Soul LPs. Glamour Girl Gone his debut novel will be released by Close to The Bone Press January 29th, 2021.
A sobering, uncompromising, piece of writing. Excellent.
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