SCARS

SCARS

on You Tube
interview with an author
on the dawn of insanity
managed
to pass my time

whereupon
somewhat self-
reflexively
thought of him
always starting to write
something but then
something happens

call it a tic, call
it a, glich
findimg himself
in a script unlike
any he had fashioned

so let us say
thete was a dinosaur
or the sound
of one at least
heading up
the street

not
being a, marvel, or
any kimd of
hero, person
extraordinaire

he ran as
fast as a mere
mortal can do
(mere mortal at a time
of increasing decrepitude)

and yet, all things considered,
at extraordinary velocity
across
an entire cityscape
now, reduced
to an ash heap

happy to prove
that even if
it were false, alarm
he, had the fortitude
to escape anything
jurassic, , creatacious,
or Gestapo SS
from 39 to 45

no matter
how horrific the scare,
and how deep the left scars