The Acrobatic Kid and The Girl Who Touched Herself to Sleep

It takes a strange man in the dark
With a baseball bat and a toothless grin
To put my lights out.

The acrobatic kid
Crept into my mind
Summer-salts and back flips
In the air, right above my head.
When he falls
I gasp
Open wide gasp
Then he's just gone.
A vanishing act
I don't know what it means
But I haven't felt right
Since his spine caved in on itself
And all his tendinitis snapped.
I heard the bones crack
Saw the skin break and the blood spew out freely
And then
He was just gone.