Moments in Green
   
  Halloween party in Columbia
  I'm covered in green
  make-up. Sylvia's there in her cat suit;
  I met her spirit in the Grand Canyon.
  She hugs me
  but does she really care?
  Gallons of wine and rum
  don't go well on my
  empty stomach.
  Most people leave
  but I'm already gone;
  my arms are fastened to Sylvia.
   
 
Sylvia Sylvia
 
holding me lovingly;
 
Sylvia Sylvia
 
kissing me hugging me;
 
Sylvia Sylvia
 
smeared with green from wiping my tears.
   
  "Jack, Jack, everything will be alright."
   
 
I sleep.
   
  I'm in a white room...
  crying.
  Four-year-old eyes reflect
  my babysitter    in a green dress -
  holding me,
  petting sweaty skin.
  "Everything will be alright."
   
  Fade to a yellow 'Rebel'...
  I'm sixteen or so; Leroy's driving, smoking a dube.
  Todd's in back drinking
  vodka straight; passes Dwayne the bottle.
  We arrive at a party -
  A door opens to
  the smooth hum of voices
  mixed with throbbing rock music.
  "Try this, Jack." - a hit of acid
  numbs my tongue.
  I discover life - I think
  I become a dragon.
  Stand in a corner
  spurting laughter at everyone
  whose lips stretch
  and faces puke words.
  "Jack, we have to go...Dwayne spewed."
  Leroy drops me off
  in his yellow bomb.
   
  The laughter stops
  inside. My sister squeals
  covered with green
  paint. She shouldn't have screamed
  at me.
  Night slips through
  silvery windows
  to my head bashing and banging
  the wall.
  I can't come down;
  fall into inviting
  pillows damp from --
  I can't stop crying.
  Someone's holding me
  Mom never holds me.
  "Everything will be alright."
   
  "Everything will be alright. Every..."
  I find myself in a hospital bed
  shivering.
  The nurse    holding me
  wiping sweaty skin.
  "Good morning sleepyhead.
  You've been unconscious for two days."
  I don't remember
  hitting a tree
  at 115 miles per hour.
   
    Another scene...
   
  I'm eighteen lying in
  green vomit.
  An empty bottle of pills
  and a slug of '151'    remains
  by the bed. Side 1 of
  "The Dark Side of the Moon" still
  repeating on my record player,
  "You run and you run to catch up with the sun
  but its sinking...
   
  I'm falling.
   
  What does it mean
  when you fall in a dream?
  I have to hold on
  to something.
   
  Sylvia?
   
  Sylvia
   
   
         Sylvia.
                    .
                       .
                             .


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