Poetry by Melodie Yvonne

Originally published online Dec 10, 2020 & in the collection I Do Heroin On The Train Line So You Don’t Have To: A Hitchhiker’s Guide To My Galaxie — available here

The Lion’s Den Sprint by Melodie Yvonne

80 down a back road way out in BFE
We’re goin’ awful fast for never gonna leave
The headlights stab the black air as we travel down the road
Tryin’ to make it to the highway ‘fore the soberness takes hold

The pigs are stakin’ out the sides, but we’re one step ahead
‘Cause we don’t wanna go to jail, but don’t care if we’re dead
Tree skeletons engulf us as they fly by dirty windows
This ole back road’s full of evil, but there’s always room for more ghosts

Ole Smoky’s gainin’ on us, but our luck’s still holding out
Like the government holds water when the nations in a drought
Just a few more hills and hairpin turns are comin’ up ahead
And that pig might still be gainin’, but we don’t care if we’re dead

The road might curve before us, but our speed straightens it out
And we’ve lost that fucking porker for a second of his doubt
We lock it up and slide into a driveway on the right
Kill the car and hunker down and watch that fuckin’ pig fly by

We slither back on 250 fixin’ to ramble on
We’re pretty sure the coast is clear, but don’t care if he’s gone
‘Cause we still got that mission waitin’ for us up ahead…
We’re both almost fucking sober and we’d both rather be dead

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