your daily car chase
Slowing down for the distant red
Light it turns its sinister bright green
Looking back everything is backwards
Theyβre still following me
Have been for a while now
I turn the twilight keys up and take a right
On Poison Oak Lane and a quick left
On Dutchmaster shit thatβs a one-way street
I reverse and drive back the way I came
Everything is looking back at me
But I donβt pass anyone for miles
And in the sky white cows eat blue grass
no xylophones
Day
In
And
Day
Out
We peel away
Layers
Of our skin
Until
Finally
Weβre skeletons
–
we turn
to (sort of)
face (whatβs left of them)
each other
and itβs so deep down and quiet
and everything
we can barely feel it
and then thatβs all
there is.

Mike Andrelczyk lives with his wife in Strasburg, Pa. His book of 30 haiku βThe Celesta Made of Waterβ can be found atΒ bonesjournal..com. His work has appeared in Fluland,Β is/lets, The Bitchinβ Kitsch, decomp, The Inquisitive Eater, My Favorite Bullet, Modern Haiku and elsewhere. His name appears on the title screen of βMajor League 2.β Follow on Twitter at @MikeAndrelczyk and on Instagram at @Dickiethon.
