Category : Poems

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She sprang from
the old rickety shack 
without one single
second to lose
like a bat out of hell
But this had been 
far worse than hell by
the way the sisters had 
graphically described it
She would rather burn 
eternally with googly-eyed drool factories
than spend one more 
day in that madhouse 
in the city of the lost
the lucky heir to a 
recently relocated 
mental hospital's leftover patients 
She looked around some
as she mulled over
her minimal choices
But then she turned up
another alternative
and headed toward
the nearby airport
booking an overnight
flight to anywhere 
There's no place like
home or this place
Only one of the latter 
would be sufficient  
But she was going home
Leaving hell's evil twin 
in her trail of dust
Up into the air she flew
She was going to fly
to her moon and stars
a dream but not as far
Flying high in the sky
in anticipation of a 
fresh new shot at life