I Disappear

Speak up

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I said some things I shouldn’t have said that get me tossed out of a party.

Then I cross the street and a state trooper pulls up hops out grabs my throat throws me against the side of the car I scream he puts on handcuffs tight as he can bends me over I look down at the ground moving over my feet until I slam my head against the roof I try to scream he reaches in and strangles me and tell me to me to the shut fuck up.

The door closes.

I disappear on March 12th, 2012. I watch the city vanish in front of my eyes from the backseat of a police cruiser. I watch the world melt behind a concrete building under a highway, and the holding cell where I scream and pound on the door until I dissolve into sleep on the metal box for a bed that I still feel in my dreams.

After he drops me off at the holding cell, the state trooper panics and flees to my college and begs the head of campus security to say I tried to put up a fight. My parents pick me up, and the cops show the video of me raging in my cell. They drop me off at college and drive home at 3 am. The head of campus security say they have footage of me, a ghost of a student.

I become the skeleton in their closet, haunting my college halls. I roam Boston like a ghoul that had lost its bridge, without cavern or solitude to cower from the…