Bright Lights
illuming a ceiling destined to evaporate
as cows produce sour coke—trivial questions demanding
elaborate answers and during the night roam free
the endless ghosts of a long forgotten and desecrated
past.
dancing wolves and howling ballerinas,
crippled offspring abandoned in the cradle—
one man reached for the moon. more followed and all they
found was eternal fire;
the lighthouse’s burning,
burning down, and burning up,
no one rushes to it, no one knows; the endless
story that goes around, fairytale told in dives
everywhere in the world—where flies drink
and bumblebees dance, the one place where life still flourishes.
blue dragons soar across
marauding clouds—torching down the
ancient artifacts of those who could not believe.
in some distant desert poppies disappear and
the universal cry wakes the babies from their blissful
slumber.
horror movies early in the morning—and strong coffee
has replaced the sweet poison of youth.
disappearing into the everlasting mist of midnight,
hollow men walk the streets and empty women crowd
the back alleys—and amidst them all a jaybird watches,
chasing down the nightingale’s missing voice.
Currently residing in Greece, George Gad Economou has a Master’s degree in Philosophy of Science and is the author of Bourbon Bottles and Broken Beds(Adelaide Books), Of the Riverside(Anxiety Press) and Reeling Off the Barstool (Dumpster Fire Press). His words have also appeared, amongst other places, in Spillwords Press, Ariel Chart, Cajun Mutt Press, Fixator Press, Horror Sleaze Trash, Outcast Press, The Piker Press, The Beatnik Cowboy, The Rye Whiskey Review, and Modern Drunkard Magazine.
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