Oblivious

Oblivious

By Brian Reed

 

 

Putrid Swirling smoke,

Exhaled from blackened lungs.

Fish yellow fingers,

Pushing filter into cracked maw.

Hairless, liver spotted scalp,

Bobbing inches from the no smoking sign.

 

Flowing sun-golden locks,

Catching air in a speeding convertible.

Flawless, red shiny fingernails,

Massaging the digital universe.

Hollywood blue speckled eyes,

Glancing left, lane closed sign on right.

 

Blackened lungs,

Spewing crimson droplets.

Hairless, liver spotted skull,

Revealing grey matter contents.

 

Flowing sun-golden locks,

Strewn with sparkling windshield shards.

Flawed red shiny fingers,

Scattered, rolling, tumbling, like  cigarette butts in a breeze.

Putrid swirling smoke,

Exhaled from the crumpled engine.

 

Hollywood blue sparkling eyes,

Vacant.

 

Fish yellow fingers,

Stilled.

 

From oblivious to oblivion.