With his mind
I dreamed the blue sky
through an empty visor.
And without disguise
I saw the shining face of childhood
and my tiny self,
framed,
down the end of a gun-barrel ...
or was it an oval frame
on a forgotten mantelpiece?
yes, I think it was ...
and I saw a child, older now, staring
out of a fading family album,
with crazy blue-green eyes,
looking like she wanted to kill someone.
And even after that,
I discovered an anonymous girl, on drugs,
a wild bush-teenager slapping ripolin onto some old
scraps
of masonite,
her gun hovering
like a ghost ...
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