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.