The Insomniac Writer

These bitter wounds that never healed
now pain me in the night:
the too cool sheets where you once slept
(a wrong that felt so right,)
 
a lover lost to time and space
(our distance never closed,)
the void where once I kept a heart
(before it decomposed.)

                I watched her, unsure of myself. She didn’t notice me, of course. No reason she should. She just sat there, all alone at a table for two, a subtle invitation from the cosmos to make her my own. I ordered another Dos Equis and pulled the notepad from the breast pocket of my blazer.
                [...]

Case #: SA-7J-008375
I.R. #:    75
Description:        Interview – Taped – Kevin Knox
Office of Origin:                                Madison County Sherriff’s Office

Case Agent:        Deputy Charles Irwin
 
On 5/24/06, starting at 5:12AM, Kevin Knox was interviewed at the Madison County Sherriff’s Office located in Jackson, Madison County, Tennessee, by Deputy Charles P. Irwin of the Madison County Sherriff’s Office. The following [...]

 
Dee glanced at her watch and then back to the boy who had murdered her father. “It’ll be here. Stop tapping your foot. You’re driving me nuts.”
Mark Stinson took a slow drag from his Marlboro then blew out a steady stream of smoke, which seemed to hang in the cool air impossibly long before dissipating. [...]

                I pissed away what passed for grace
(a darkened glass, a holy face)
                and fell for knockoffs built of rust,
fictitious gods of fumes and dust.
 
                I cried dead tears that laid to waste
the love I’d overlooked in haste,
                that gentle touch of Someone more
I’d left unanswered at the door.