Per Cod

BELLS: A DIFFERENT WAR

somewhere
somewhere in town
in
this
town
a very young man
buys his own death
his
own
slow
powder death

cry for help
from an alley
daddy said;
you mustn’t
cry
laugh
mustn’t think
mustn’t see
you better do
what
they tell you to

he’s lived
a
breeze,
now
he
wants a storm
need the rush!
don’t want
what mom and dad
had
too full of life
full
of
hope too
once
long ago
weeks
days
at the least

hear the
bells
ringing
hear!
alarm bells ringing
bells ringing
in the head
of
the
very young man
the
living
dead

damn
should not
have
done that
too late
hear the bells!
total
desolation
absolute
despair
is when
you know
what you do
will kill you
knowing it
only too well
living
in hell
hoping
wishing
to be well
but knowing
hearing the bell
need a shot
need a fix
best friend dead
empty his pockets
then
call for
help
deal with it
later
he sure
don’t need
it

bells
damn
bells

somewhere
in
this
town
bells
ring
in the head
of a
very
young
man
a living dead
out
to
get
a
fix
just
one
more
that’s it!
powder death
just one more
then he’ll stop
bells
ringing

Author’s Note: For Mona, and everyone else whose little brother buys powder death