More Cinquains

19.
Tonight
Is not the night
Your life changes like you
So long dreamed under tree-shadow,
Dumb kid


20.
Promise
Is for the young.
How to see the future
As ascending blast of guts and
Talent


21.
In Ed's
Room, his finger
Jabbed into my soft chest,
He seems to think that I did this
To him

Cinquains

11.
Listen
Applicant, your
Resume must whisper
Profit, Ivy. Or admit you
Submit.

12.
When you
won't go the speed
limit, I say “Come on,
are you new to driving?” like I
hate you

13.
Master
I called for you
for hours until my throat
was raw and torn but you didn't
appear

14.
Master
I called for you;
you came and put the room
in order never asking why
I called



NOTES FROM THE PSYCH WARD

16.
The ward
stifles Edward
needs a cigarette and
fresh air all he needs, like any
person


17.
The meds
Flatten feeling
The me I know is gone
Wretched as I was before I know this
Is wrong


18.
Caitlyn
Is twenty one
Mixed lithium and booze
Called the help-line slumping into
Coma