Pink Milk

~ Pink Milk~


Joe sat down to breakfast with last night's dream of levitation clearly

recollected and then the dream of climbing rocks of knowledge
reoccurred and the dream of walking naked down a city street

came along and the blurred dreams rolled by.

The fraction-of-a-second dreams flickered across his eye's mind

between the completely out of character and morally outrageous dreams

that caused him to wonder and worry.

When the fearful dreams of heights and crimes came through

he placed the barrel in his mouth and pulled the trigger, 

while the earth, rotating a little bit more, let the sun shine through

the kitchen window onto his blood and brains sprayed all over the wall,

and when neighbors found him the next day he was still seated

at the table, a bowl of Corn Flakes, soggy, the milk pink, in front of him.

 

D.  B. Tompsett

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 2 brothers i knew lived together for most of 30 years.. when the older one

moved into a home with his girlfriend, the younger brother killed himself..

and the older, feeling guilt, followed his example