Kansas bleeds into Colorado
Which caused my confusion after borders were crossed and forgotten
Crawling across Colorado under cellulite clouds
Complaining to Kansas:
"Can't you put on a show? Set the clouds on fire."
I remember him
Two narrow fingers and a thumb
A barrel, trigger, jutted jaws
Fiery eyes
Standing knees
"Execution style?" My voice
His fingers on my temple
Slide to the back of my skull
"If I were, I'd do it here"
"So you wouldn't have to watch the light leave my eyes?"
"No, so the exit wound would be in the front"
"Why?"
"So I wouldn't have to see your face anymore"
A jolt of the wrist
A falling
"Some thrill killings
Have variously been described
As execution style murders"
—Wikipedia
And I felt like I never stood back up
Sighed so long and hard the exhaust of dissatisfaction
Blew me out of bed
Through the roof
And high above America
Tears of bitter disappointment
Fall down on Kansas
And Max
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B. A. Durham’s False Memories blends dream and reality in a seamless mix. As his father, afflicted by Alzheimer’s, fades away, the narrator is haunted by a dream that may be a memory, returning to him insistently. The piece is full of wonderful detail (the father touching his lip where once there was a mustache, “but now he is clean-shaven—he has been for years” — and moving in revealing the complexities of a family’s life. A worthy winner which shows the power of dreams to influence us.
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