Chapter Seven by John Grey

She turns on her radio.

Blood pours from the speakers.

 

A man drops out of the sky,

wearing tweeds and holding an umbrella.

 

A fire-engine roars down the street.

A young boy cleaves it in two with an axe.

 

The trees in the orchard grow apple dumplings.

A girl beheads her brother with the Stooges on vinyl.

 

Insanity can only take you so far.

You have to be dead to complete the journey.

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John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Stand, Washington Square Review and Rathalla Review. Latest books, “Covert” “Memory Outside The Head” and “Guest Of Myself” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in the McNeese Review, Santa Fe Literary Review and Open Ceilings.