[ SK ] Be My Guest

    
Addiction    
   
---escape into a fictional world  
 
and a rather easy getaway at that    
   
though the hard irony is    
that such make-believe realities    
are the most difficult situations    
to extract oneself from    
   
A bystander with a crowbar    
pulling you from an auto wreck    
out in the middle of Nowhere    
seems a more likely outcome    
   
when too engrossed  
to mark chapter's end    
lay the book aside for now  
on the coffee table and resume  
daily life with all of its heartbreaks    
   
but just as your fogged brain is clearing    
the leading lover of that novelty romance    
uses her powers of persuasion  
to sweep you off those aching feet    
lay your weary body on a downy bed    
fill your stubborn mule pig head    
again with sweet nothings lulling    
as each spoon fed capsule    
soothes the burning fragments    
dulling    
   
until the embered pain    
is extinguished in a snowbank    
along the main road to success    
less travelled these days    
   
You can't outrun the miseries of life    
with fast cars and expensive champagnes    
   
The hardest lesson learned is that    
drying out requires a more  
head on approach    
   
preferably with a sledgehammer    
   
However, a typewriter will suffice    
 
provided you have    
tomach enough to kill off    
once upon a time cherished characters    
standing between the wheelchair    
and getting back on those feet;    
   
more importantly, the resolve  
---enough to strike the match    
torch the manuscript of your old life    
before shoving its flaming pages    
down the throat of your    
number one fan