i lost my faith in
humanity long before
two planes hit
two towers
long before my father
put his hands around
my neck to see if he
could make my eyes
pop out of my head
long before my cousin
held me down in my
grandmother’s bathroom
and put her nipple in
my mouth and told me
to suck
long before a misplaced
injection forced an
emergency c-section
long before my father
went to vietnam to die
and failed
long before beethoven
lost his hearing
long before bukowski
found his favorite wine
long before kerouac
came running down
the mountain
long before the oldest
version of me was forced
to choke on whatever
they wanted to call god
J.J. Campbell (1976 - ?) is stuck in suburbia, wondering where all the lonely housewives are. He's been widely published over the years, most recently at Horror Sleaze Trash, Synchronized Chaos, Mad Swirl, Terror House Magazine and The Rye Whiskey Review. You can find him most days on his mildly entertaining blog, evil delights. (https://evildelights.blogspot.com)