Michelle

She laughed at me as I said it,
my dramatics were ridiculous, my ferocity at something
fictional deserved a chuckle,
but what must it have been like for her?
"Right before a person dies they show you who they really are."
In the end his brilliance opened the bottle
and left him naked on the floor.
But brilliance will not choke and sputter as you strangle it to death,
it will not weep for you,
it will not comfort you.
I pretend to understand human suffering
acoss every face
to convince myself
of what I am not capable of.
But I'm only one hard shove away
from Harvey Dent--
Scarred and Broken
and talking to myself on a street corner
with a bullet I'm saving for Russiann Roulette
resting safely in my dirty cotton pocket.