Choices

Day in,

Day out.

News flood into your life.

Wake with a headache.

Walk to work with the same.

Shadows dance in the storefront glass.

Mocking you.

Voices cooing in your brain.

Choices

Pat's Bar lights bright, gleaming glasses.

Filled with Jack, music pounding.

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Simon at the corner, want some horse?

Hot needle and Moody in the background

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Dark house candles burning.

Two pistols one empty one with a round.

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Bible on the nightstand.

Scriptures filled with love.

Choices