Friday's Whims of the Time Traveler 94.0: October 2010

Tyler Clementi
by Belinda Roddie

It’s a damn shame to see a young man die.

The bow dances on
six strings before the musician stops playing,
jumps off the bridge and 
disappears beside quiet sailboats.

It’s a nightmare scenario, and you’d expect
him to rise up in a cold sweat,
and the last thing you’d want to do is
go back to sleep, but what he
really doesn’t want to do is
wake up.

I’ll dream again, but
I pray to God that I stay away from
bridges and lonely boats that
shuffle back from the scene
on wavy feet.

The work you see here was written in October of 2010. It was last edited on June 14th, 2012.

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