Bullet Train Riding

Bullet train riding
Shooting off 500 mph

Hardwired civilian-brand sniper rifle
Pill bottle stock
Stainless steel razor blade trigger
Knotted rope barrel
Sweet metallic mouthfeel

Bullet train riding
Doom clock reading 05:00

Pink-scented flesh-mended skeleton
Train conducting in front of a banged up mirror
There’s no drowning in rail-rivers
When I’ve become my own
Hemlock/Charon

Bullet train riding
500 steps away from home

Don’t know whether I’m picking up or dropping off
Self-aggrandizing expression of self-determination
Fantastic Final Fucking Fatal Freedom
Or the pitiful reality
Of sanctimonious self-defeat

Who’s driving this
Bullet train riding

----------

5/2021

[Also seen in ROADKILL AGORA]