Tigers
when
the
tigers
broke free
we
loved
to
feel human
again
and
now is
there
a god?
Love
you did
it
to yourself
love hurts
the
most
when only one
heart
feels the way
forever
should
while the other
is drifting
among
the choppy seas
of
regret
and hate
nobody told
you
things fall
apart
1978
the sun
it
sets
Los Angeles
in
1978
escape with a smile
and
death
if you're lucky
as
I pull the car
over
at the midnight
fried chicken
stand
and
when
is
the moon
going to
go
down?
The City
the city
at night
seems
like an old friend
you know
its bars
its whores
its alleys
the cheap beer
the pills
the neon
flashing
and
saying
go somewhere
better
than
this.
Goodnight
the sidewalks
scream
her
name
death
waits in the other
room
even she
must wait
on
her
and being good
will get you
a cherry lipstick
kiss
goodnight.
BIO: Thom Young is a writer from Texas. His work has been in the Commonline Journal, 3 am magazine, Crack the Spine, Word Riot, 48th Street Press and many other places. A 2008 Million Writers Award nominee for his story Perico. He is one of Amazon's most popular poets hitting #1 in Poetry Anthologies and Short Stories and his latest A Little Black Dress Called Madness hit #1 in Germany.
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