Radix 

I liked you more

When you just walked on your feet

I liked you more

When it was me you didn’t try and eat

Back when you didn’t rest in the ground

Back when your lips actually made sounds

Your fingers grew long & turned gray matte

Hair became wispy, moldy and flat

Mixed with the soft soil

We found old teeth in our vegetable garden

Next our shed, old pieces of skin, now gray  & hardened

I put those pieces together

And they did create a face

The skin was tough as leather

It had a chin scar, like you, in the same place

I knocked on your front door to show you, but the house was empty

Cops came by and said you were all missing

Your mom, your dad and even the shitty cat that’s always hissing

That was weeks ago 

And now things get stranger by the hour

I’m having trouble sleeping

Awake contemplating that spring evening.

Laughing, joking, walking and talking

I had your attention for nearly an hour

Until you spotted a fleshy flower

It grew from the ground on a stem like bone

In a place that was quiet

Where not even the sun shown

I didn’t like its thin blue veins

Fleshy leaves

Or bloom that looked like exposed brains

I wanted to go 

But you wanted to stay

To try and pull up this odd flower

For the rest of our day

You tugged and pulled

And huffed and howled

But threw in the towel after nearly an hour

With your defeat

You still wanted a prize

So you pulled of a petal

Then mentioned tasting metal

That was weeks ago

Cops came back by and think I’m crazy

Told them I saw your face in the ground

Looking up at me, lips motionless but still making sound

I told them all that you said

Whispering thru my window

Straight to my head

But what I did next, I left that part out

To see if it was you,  I came outside

Stepped off my porch & into the yard

You grabbed my leg & almost pulled me under

I yelled & screamed

Awoke my father & mother

Right before I fought and pulled away

Your teeth sinched down and bit thru my shoes rubber

I thought it best to tell the cops a lie

Now our whole neighborhood is on lockdown

And I’m not sure why

A single long black helicopter has appeared 

Sitting there, hovering, floating in the sky. 

No noise, no lights

Not a window in sight

A flying metal fortress 

Above my house day and night