Tonight's Poet Corner: In Case Of An Emergency
In Case Of An Emergency
by Belinda Roddie
Warren drop kicked seven painkillers
into his mouth and chewed loudly enough
for the king of Denmark to hear from his bed.
As he settled himself into the bathtub, he thought
he saw double helixes spiraling around his head,
neurons thrashing under his skull, desperate
to free themselves from their cerebral prison. And
outside, his mother bashed on the door with a baseball
bat, screaming for him to get out, because the fire
was spreading upstairs, but her son was in a
medically induced dreamland where a unicorn
was already carrying him to safety.
by Belinda Roddie
Warren drop kicked seven painkillers
into his mouth and chewed loudly enough
for the king of Denmark to hear from his bed.
As he settled himself into the bathtub, he thought
he saw double helixes spiraling around his head,
neurons thrashing under his skull, desperate
to free themselves from their cerebral prison. And
outside, his mother bashed on the door with a baseball
bat, screaming for him to get out, because the fire
was spreading upstairs, but her son was in a
medically induced dreamland where a unicorn
was already carrying him to safety.
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