Being Chased
E. Martin Pedersen
The Dogs of Hell, orange with black donut spots, and orange glass eyes
Theyre on my trail
I look up and their slobber teeth shine in the twilight on all sides
If I run theyll attack, no escape, no cover
If I stand theyll attack too,
They will bring me down like a football team
And rip off my flesh like a kid opening Christmas presents
Like digging through the sand for your shadow whos suffocating underneath
When the sand slides back in the hole, hour glass-style
I am doomed, surrounded, trapped by the pack; there are hundreds, coming nearer,
growing larger, famished, hateful
All going for my throat and genitals first.
In high water, rough choppy seas
There is no order to the waves
The waters gone berserk and lost itself shaking in panic
Like hundreds of people mingling in a crowded railway station
Who dont go TO the trains or TO the exit
Just sway and slosh for no reason
surrounded by marble columns and cigarette machines
Cant they see how desperate their plight is, why dont they fight to get out, to see the horizon, to breathe clean air?
I am blind, I hear only crashes, my spinning legs carry me nowhere
a sea hand puts its fingers through my ribs to squeeze the blood out of my heart
I am drowning in this chaos storm; theyve won; Im finished.
Underwater, things are even worse.
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