Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Something

They dragged him into the courthouse
like a fallen god.
He stood,
raking rusted fingernails
through leathered grizzle,
and didn't speak.
The sound of the air in the room
deflating
was like the sound of
air deflating from something.

3 comments:

Markus Edwards said...

"like a fallen god"

i like that line

Jeremy said...

haahah

jake.....this is good. i hope that you meant for that to be funny at the end cause you had me laughing... if you didnt then i guess im an ass.

go phills

The Jake said...

Dude, if that wasn't supposed to be funny at the end, I shouldn't be allowed on the interweb.