Death by fire.
Pancreatic cancer,
how it breathes.
Deception.
What you thought is real is not
only shadows on cold, hard concrete.
Russian mobsters
who enjoy slicing fingers, tongues and eyes.
Being alone.
Being alone in Bogota.
Spiders.
Prostate cancer.
Change.
All the constant brutal changes.
A complete obliteration of a 401k.
Death by drowning.
Unemployment.
Pandemics unleashed.
Alzheimer’s.
Outliving my savings.
Flesh eating disease.
Dark, moist, millowy places.
Not knowing when the DOW hits 50,000.
Tornadoes and earthquakes.
Salmonella.
A wife’s criticism and complaints.
Amputation.
Suffocation.
How all these fears add up
to a cataclysm of annihilation
as we watch our earth explode
at the speed of light
sending us scattered
like a Higgs Boson element
accelerating into eternity.
Waxing & Waning: A Literary Journal
A print and online literary journal publishing poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, screenplays, plays, art, graphic stories, & short films by April Gloaming Publishing.