Eulogy

Coyly tucked beneath a virginal
sheet: electroshock mindfuck on wheels.
Convenient.
Rolled right to you.
Pizza delivery techno
in the mental death ward.

Other candles zapped, one by one,
it's Sarah's go round at the party.

Forgotten memories cram the room,
burst through a distant window.
Visions vaporize of an ashen man
sprawled on his suicide bed, 
leftover pills, stardust, around him,
that note bequeathing Sarah
his Marilyn books still curled
in the crotch of his battered Royal.


Pris Campbell
©2005


Art: Distant Shores of Being by Dallas Bromley
     copyrighted and used with permission

To see more of Dallas Bromley's fantastic artwork
click HERE. This particular painting won the 2002 International Art competition. I was taken by her work then, and still am.

 

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