he waited
and waited
and
w a i t e d
for her to come back.
but she never did.
she
never
did.
and then
it was announced on the loud speakers
one thursday afternoon
that Lillian Indie Cale
had committed suicide
on monday evening.
she had taken a gun
from her father's bedside table drawer
and pressed the cool metal to her throbbing right temple.
she pulled the trigger
or maybe the demons did
and the bullet pierced through flesh and gray matter.
Marcus Lenny Jacobson started screaming
because the girl he loved was dead.
