Joseph Lisowski

Ghosts

Somebody sledge hammered a railroad spike
in my skull when I wasn't lookin'
and disappeared like some ghost
behind the night clouds.
It's happened before.

I'm holdin' my head at some unnatural angle
while tryin' to feel for the aspirin bottle.
I don't know how these things
keep happenin' to me.
All of a sudden, boom!
There's no tellin'.

Some nights there's a gang of them
come runnin' with jackhammers,
hydraulic drills, and goddamn pile drivers.
They start them up all at once.
I'm screamin' through my dreams.

Then I wake and they's gone.
Gone like them clouds at night.
 

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