**POEM: tap-tap-tap (sanitarium sixteen)

By Steve Isaak


typing their dark fun lyrics
listening to spun black,
seeking solace
from nerd-smash bullies
and parental marital tensions -
dreaming love
with a metal hearted, raw like sushi
eclectric witch
whose illustrated thighs
instigate bliss and howls, storied vengeance
for later years: our tales,
our lines, our magick –
not theirs


Copyright ©2012 Steve Isaak. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce in any form, including electronic, without the author’s express permission.

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This poem is included in my forthcoming poetry anthology, Almost there: poems. It's scheduled for autumn 2012 publication.

I posted this poem for The Mag, #101. (Photo and prompt provided by Tess Kinkaid - thanks, Tess! Pictured Japanese exhibit: Ever by Boris Hoppek.)

tap-tap-tap (sanitarium sixteen) was also posted for Mostly Fiction Mondays, created by Stranger and Me, whose theme for this week is "Parents".

If you have the time, talent and are so inclined, come play with us in these writing prompts! =)