Hello, Hel.
Read this in bathroom stalls and shopping malls, aloud
(it's meant as much for them as you).
Existence not so much existential as exit-bent
Simply put,
---Freud's a fraud.
Hello, Hel.
I've missed your sideways smiles
and the way you line pockets with chapstick caps and nothing.
The poets sign on flesh-dotted lines,
eager for the "pucker up!" sucker punch,
the dime screw with death.
Hello, Hel.
Those smokes on the table are my one-way ticket home.
This? Not a suicide note, just an r.s.v.p.
"If the world is ending, I'm throwing the party"
is quite the invite. I'll try to keep my hopes up, and the bloodrush down.
Every novella needs a decent ending, after all.
