An Alcoholic Show
Alcohol produces its own strain
of diseases,
it satisfies, but never pleases,
he wanted to stop,
and many times he would try,
but he really couldn’t remain dry,
he fought back tears,
but he was an aging alcoholic for years,
that morning he had no where to go,
so he drove around town,
putting on an alcoholic show,
his radio blasting
and he couldn’t hear a sound,
early, but he had too much to drink,
he couldn’t think,
and in one eye blink,
the child’s head was lacerated,
but what killed her
were multiple fractures,
his eyes blood red,
child dead,
the thoughts in his head
were thinning,
as the young girl’s bicycle wheels
kept spinning, and spinning,
he wasn’t thinking about the girl,
but the arrest,
and the blow to her tiny chest,
was so violent,
the marks of the car’s grille
was clearly visible on her skin,
she almost broke in half,
because she was very thin,
accident or homicide,
either way
only the child gets that funeral ride.
© 2012 Frank Atanacio