Thursday, February 28, 2013

Jell-O

The blood was like Jello-O
                                             All over the backseat of her Ford Victoria
            Still painted like the orca whale
                                                                      That represented so much of everything
That the                       monopoly money-filled                   government wanted everyone to think
Because they couldn’t remember what they were running from
Being a fugitive for so long
Breaking all the laws that had the decency to be straight
And the suggestions that had the rage                        to be a little bit more crooked than her front teeth
All stained like the butts of the cigarettes that she kept in her                        Altoids tin

Together,                       cruising with the sin of forgetting
And bending the rules like a candy cane
                                               On the fourth of July
With another siren following her
To add to the symphony she found too amusing to drive any faster than a hundred and twenty
                                                                                                                       Miles per leap year

They still hadn’t caught on that she couldn’t be caught

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